Regular Price $19.99

Starring: José Luis García Pérez,  David Castillo (IV),  Empar Ferrer,  Elvira Lindo,  Arno Chevrier, 
Directed By: Miguel Albaladejo, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 2004
Studio: TLA Releasing
Format: AC-3,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD-Video,  Subtitled,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Bear Cub

Description
Pedro (Jos Luis Garca-Prez) is an attractive and homosexual dentist who lives a sexually active lifestyle. He offers to take care of his nine-year-old nephew Bernardo (David Castillo) for two weeks while the child's mother, Pedro's older sister Violeta (Elvira Lindo), goes off to India with her latest "hippie" boyfriend. Pedro modifies his sexual behavior but quickly finds out that Bernardo is extremely comfortable and mature in his attitude towards life. When Violeta suddenly becomes detained in India, Pedro finds himself the boy's caretaker and must face the challenges of raising a child.

Customer Reviews for Bear Cub

A human family
After watching what seemed like an endless number of g-d awfully depressing movies--I won't name them here but movies with dead, bleeding dogs, savaged humans, teenage studs trying to do two virgins a day--it was nice to see a wholesome movie: a gay-Hispanic-HIV+ dentist accidentally becoming guardian for the son of his vacationing-then-incarcerated-aging-hippie sister.

Wholesome, not simple. Wholesome because of the generous amount of love--yes, some between chubby, hairy gay men--shown in the movie. There are problems; there is intrigue, but there is always love. And, after viewing so many loveless films, this film was a particular treat.Bear Cub

Grandmum got the flick in the end.
I really enjoyed this dvd, the uncle was given the task of looking after the boy after his mother and 'friend' went to India and ended up in prision for quite a while. Grandmum was a real bitch wanting the boy for herself and pulling all the dirty tricks in the book to get him. I was a bit touched at the finish of the film when the uncle came back for the, now grown up,boy at his grandmums funeral. Good story with a good ending.Bear Cub

Drug Cub: Glorification of Drugs
This show could have been so beautiful in the telling of a gay uncle/guardiam and child and I would have rated it 3 stars for the tale if not for the following;

The gay guardian is permissive about drugs, seeing nothing wrong with them personally and the show shows no ill effects of drugs, only positive. He speaks out against his gay friends doing drugs in front of the kid once, but after being chastised by them he forever after allows it, thus sending the message that drugs are cool are good to use. This actually is shown by the child eventually taking drugs himself and all his friends all starting to do it too, again with no ill effects shown, just their euphoria. Am I the only gay man that sees the problem with this highly distructive message?

In addition the gay guardian may be out when it comes to homosexuality but the show suggests you should be secretive and ashamed of everything else, including HIV/AIDS.. and furthermore that you shouldn't tell your partners and that you cannot have a committed partner with AIDS. The uncle /guardian dismisses the one he really loves due to his HIV BUT WITHOUT TELLING HIM WHY, but yet would continue to have casual sex with him. Also by then going and having casual sex in swarmy places before and after he gets worse, he doesn't learn any lessons but instead the film suggests that the HIV/AIDS suffers should simply keeping going and having casual sex, especially when after doing that he gets better. What is this film trying to say? C'mon my fellow gay men, wake up! Don't support something just because it's gay. Make sure it really is good, this film isn't and in fact sets a terrible standard.Bear Cub

Decent transfer and so-so but very rare and serious bear-fetish flick
Sometimes it lacks of focus on storytelling but it's interesting and symphatetic enough. I didn't like that its showing gay cruise areas as potential blackmail garden. I can't complain about movie and DVD throughly except very fast-paced authorized subtitles. You can't read them for God's sake! Anyway, if you bought it, you could watch it twice or thrice and catch subtitles. My favorite scene is absolutely fantastic and sexy opening scene, even if it has a body-position error. :)Bear Cub

Stunning, Innovative, Moving and Brilliant - Not for vapid US gays
I've read the 22 reviews that exist as of this writing (june 2006). I am so glad the the majority of reviewers have appreciated this amazing film from Spain. There are plenty of spoilers in the reviews and I wouldn't want to rob new viewers of the joy I had in the story unfolding. It was a beautiful, well-acted gem from a country that seems to have it more together than here in the United States (I guess nearly 30 years of Almodovar movies will do that).
This movie is not only worth watching but its worth purchasing.
And as for "robotsloveme" who hated this film -- I can understand why robots love you. Because anyone with a pulse would find you insane -- that's the only way I can understand your SO UTTERLY missing the point of this movie. Was it dubbed wrong for you or something? I'm fluent in Spanish so maybe I got the original voice. But your calling this an insulting film for gays and AIDS is ridiculous. Utterly stupidly ridiculous. It made me think you must have watched a completely different film then the one I own.

For everyone else, trust the absolute gushing love that the GRAND majority of reviewers have bestowed on this special special film.Bear Cub