John Leary is a professional clown whose wife died in a car accident and has left him to care for his two young boys. He is loving but useless at fathering. Jack the Bear, which is Leary's...

John Leary is a professional clown whose wife died in a car accident and has left him to care for his two young boys. He is loving but useless at fathering. Jack the Bear, which is Leary's conscience and a quantity of alcohol leads him to denounce a neo-fascist candidate on his children's TV program and also to his youngest son Dylan being kidnapped by a disturbed neo-nazi supporter.