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The Bear, (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do Two Brothers). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.

After his mother is killed in a freak accident, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded Kodiak bear as they try to dodge human hunters.

Not to be confused with Bear, which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.

Tropes used in The Bear (film) include:

Badass: The Kodiak
Everything's Worse with Bears: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.
Expy - Coincidentally, Brother Bear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.
Family-Unfriendly Death: The death of the cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout.
Family-Unfriendly Violence: While a majority of the violence is offscreen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.
Gentle Giant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .
Mercy Kill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.
Mushroom Samba: When the young cub eats some mushrooms, we are given a trippy sequence.
The Film of the Book: The film is based on a book from 1916.

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-''[[The Bear]]'', (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do ''[[Two Brothers]]''). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.
+''[[The Bear]]'', (also known as ''L'Ours'') is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do ''[[Two Brothers]]''). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.
 After his mother is killed in a freak accident, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded Kodiak bear as they try to dodge human hunters.