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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: A homosexual dentist agrees to take care of his nine-year-old nephew while his sister travels in India.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. 80
    Bear Cub casually pulls off an amazing feat--combining innocent childhood nostalgia and graphic sexuality.
  2. Reviewed by: Jessica Reaves
    75
    The audience gets all of the love, with none of the guilt. It's enough to give you faith in family dramas again.
  3. A compassionate, life-affirming Spanish comedy-drama.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Bearded, burly and even balding, these "bears" are a refreshing change from the depilated, youth-obsessed men of "Queer as Folk."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. JimG.
    7
    A moving story about a mother, an uncle, and a grandmother and their love for a child. And, at last, a "gay and lesbian" movie where gayness is incidental to the plot rather than the focus of it. Expand

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