The Bear is a 1989 American/French adventure-drama family film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and released by TriStar Pictures.
Adapted from the novel The Grizzly King (1916) by American author James Oliver Curwood, the screenplay was written by Gérard Brach.
The film tells the story of Youk, a young orphaned grizzly bear cub who runs away from home upon the death of his mother in British Columbia, Canada, and upon finding himself stranded in Kodiak Island, befriends Kaar, an adult male Kodiak bear, as two hunters pursue them through the wild.
The original music was composed by Philippe Sarde
