Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Little Bear Movie (film)

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Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Little Bear Movie
Produced by	Nelvana Limited
Release date	7 August 2001
Runtime	1:15:22
Aspect ratio	4:3

Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Little Bear Movie is a Canadian direct-to-video family animated action-adventure film based on the Little Bear book series written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It was produced by Nelvana Limited in association with Wild Things Productions, Inc. and with the assistance of The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. The film, directed by Raymond Jafelice, was released on 7 August 2001. The film's screenplay was written by James Still, Raymond Jafelice, and Nancy Barr, while the story was by Else Holmelund Minarik.

Release

The Little Bear Movie was initially released, direct-to-video on videocassette, on 7 August 2001. The film's DVD was released on 3 June 2003.

On 28 June 2004, The Little Bear Movie aired on Nickelodeon.

On 15 December 2014, The Little Bear Movie was released by Treehouse TV on the Official Little Bear YouTube channel . It was added to Tubi around 9 January 2020. By 12 January, the film was also available on Pluto TV.

Response

On 23 September 2001, it was announced that Shawn Colvin (performer) and Marc Jordan and Antony Vanderburgh (composers) were had been nominated for Best Original Song at the 2001 Video Premiere Awards for the song "Great Big World".

The Little Bear Movie is rated 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb, with 336 votes. Its Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes is 68%, with more than one thousand votes. The average rating is 3.8 out of 5 stars. Common Sense Media approves the movie for ages four and up and has rated it with five out of five stars.

Opening credits

A Nelvana Limited Production

Maurice Sendak's Little Bear

The Little Bear Movie

based upon the series of books written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

STORY BY

Else Holmelund Minarik

SCREENPLAY BY

James Still

Raymond Jafelice

Nancy Barr

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Michael Hirsh

Patrick Loubert

Clive A. Smith

Maurice Sendak

John B. Carls

SUPERVISING PRODUCERS

Stephan Hodgins

Patricia R. Burns

Marianne Culbert

LINE PRODUCER

Tracy Leach

FEATURING

Kristin Fairlie as LITTLE BEAR

MUSIC BY

Lesley Barber

DIRECTOR

Raymond Jafelice

Closing credits

DIRECTOR

Raymond Jafelice

FEATURING THE VOICES OF

(in order of appearance)

Little Bear . . . . . Kristin Fairlie

Father Bear . . . . Dan Hennessey

Mother Bear . . . Janet-Laine Green

Little Moose . . . Max Morrow

Cub . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Fairlie

Mountain Lion . . Wayne Best

Mother Moose . . Catherine Disher

Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Sabiston

Duck . . . . . . . . . . Tracy Ryan

Owl . . . . . . . . . . . Amos Crawley

Cub's Mother . . Alison Sealy Smith

Cub's Father . . . Maurice Dean Wint

Moose . . . . . . . . . Ray Landry

Poppy . . . . . . . . . Cole Caplan

Pete . . . . . . . . . . Asa Perlman

"Great Big World"

Composed by Marc Jordan

and Anthony Vanderberg

Performed by Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin appears courtesy of

Columbia Records

"Everybody Wants To Paint My Picture"

Composed by Marc Jordan

and Anthony Vanderberg

Performed by Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin appears courtesy of

Columbia Records

Music for songs inspired by

the underscore of Lesley Barber

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS

Ted Collyer

Cynthia Ward

STORYBOARD ARTISTS

Charles E. Bastien

Patricia Lewis-MacDougall

Ted Collyer

Annelies Davis

Cynthia Ward

Dan Poitras

Frank Ramirez

Raymond Jafelice

STORYBOARD CLEAN-UP ARTISTS

Maureen Shelleau

Trevor Hierons

STORYBOARD CO-ORDINATOR

Jason Cooke

DESIGN SUPERVISORS

Will Makra

Cynthia Ward

DESIGNERS

Mike Brooks

Dale Desrochers

Leif Norheim

Mark Koren

Neil McNeil

Alex Naussbaum

Michelle Houston

Jan Tillcock

F/X DESIGN

Raymond Pang

LAYOUT SUPERVISOR

Ted Collyer

LAYOUT ARTISTS

Scott Bennett

Joe Gosselin

Sean Jeffries

Kevin Klis

Ed Lee

Brad Markewitz

Jim Nakashima

Dan Poitras

Dinah Postma

Brian Poehlman

Frank Ramirez

Terry Rotsaert

Joanne Rice

Genni Shelby

Ron Wilson

Winky Wong

LAYOUT CO-ORDINATOR

Christina Helmer

POSING SUPERVISOR

Cynthia Ward

POSING ARTISTS

Sean Branigan

Lee Cadieux

Lynne Riest

Mark Koren

Lisa Luxton

Joanne Rice

Wendy Parkin

Michelle Houston

Maureen Shelleau

Jan Tillcock

BACKGROUND ARTIST

Mei Tsao

COLOR STYLIST

Nassrin Monem

ANIMATION SUPERVISORS

Kevin Currie

Maureen Shelleau

CASTING DIRECTOR

Karen Goora

VOICE DIRECTOR

Dan Hennessey

CASTING ADMINISTRATORS

Dee Shipley

Karyn Tester

CASTING CO-ORDINATOR

Christine Geddes

RECORDING ASSISTANTS

Kerry Bones

Edmond Chan

Carrie Justason

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Ruta Cube

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Hugh Neilson

PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR

Amedeo De Palma

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Genna Du Plessis

Dan Mokriy

SCRIPT CO-ORDINATORS

Karen Moonah

Alice Prodanou

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

Dave Cox

LIP SYNC

Cathy Parkes

DIRECTOR OF POST PRODUCTION

Rob Kirkpatrick

GENERAL MANAGER OF POST PRODUCTION

Joe Scrivo

POST PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tracy Grant

POST PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR

Ann McGuire

POST PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR

Brian Marsh

MUSIC PRODUCER

Stephen Hudecki

MUSIC EDITOR

David W. Shaw

MUSIC ASSISTANTS

Amy Fritz

Helena Werren

PICTURE EDITOR

Mark Sanders

ONLINE EDITOR

Brian Karn

VIDEO CONFORM

Doug Appeldoorn

Brad Wall

COLORIST

Colin Moore

AUDIO SUPERVISOR

Scott Murdoch

DIALOGUE EDITOR

David W. Shaw

SOUND EFFECTS EDITOR

Scott Murdoch

RE-RECORDING ENGINEER

Ric Jurgens

PRE-PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Liza Vespi

TECHNICAL LEAD PRE-PRODUCTION

Henry Watkins

LEICA EDITING

Darrell MacDonald

Mark Sanders

PRE-PRODUCTION EDITING

Terry Carter

Ken Hurlbut

Kent Theaker

Jeff Howard

Steve Keeping

Geoff Walton

SCANNING AND PRINTING

Jason Abrahams

Voltaire Aquino

DIALOGUE RECORDING ENGINEERS

Mark Baldi

Sal Grimaldi

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION FACILITIES

Crunch Recording Group Inc.

Dome Audio And Video Effects

Hanho Heung-Up Co. Ltd.

McClear Digital

Magnet North

Mercury Filmworks

BUSINESS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS

Suzanne Cross

Carrie Dumont

A Nelvana Limited Production

in association with

Wild Things Productions, Inc.

and with the assistance of

The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

©2000 Nelvana Limited.

All Rights Reserved.

Nelvana is a trade-mark of Nelvana Limited.

All Rights Reserved.

presented in

Dolby Surround

NELVANA

A Corus™ Entertainment Inc. Company

Background information

According to Paramount Home Entertainment, the company which distributed The Little Bear Movie in the United States, the messages in the film are about "appreciating others' differences, as well as loyalty and friendship."

In the third week after its release, The Little Bear Movie was sixth in Billboard's list of best-selling videocassettes and third in its list of best-selling children's videocassettes. By the fourth week, it was the fourth best-selling videocassette and still the third best-selling children's videocassette.

Contents

• Act 1
  • "Journey to Pudding Hill"
  • "The Wilderness"
• Act 2
  • "Wild Bear Cub"
• Act 3
  • "Famous Flying Flapjacks"
  • "Going to the Moon"
  • "Wishing"
• Act 4
  • "Search Party"
  • "Lost Signs"
• Act 5
  • "Poppy and Pete"
  • "Mountain Lion Mayhem"
  • "Reunited"
  • "A Hug from Momma Bear"

External links

• "The Little Bear Movie " at Little Bear - Official at YouTube
• "The Little Bear Movie " at Rotten Tomatoes
• "The Little Bear Movie" at IMDb
• "The Little Bear Movie" at Wikipedia
• "The Little Bear Movie " at The Movie Database