A tragicomic saga from the celebrated author of The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules and Son of the Circus, a large-scale burlesque similar in scope to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five or Catch-22 » Joseph Heller. If you love family sagas, if you know how to perceive other people's pain as your own, if you are able to “become obsessed and not lose obsession,” the Berry family will become your own. So, at a summer job at the Arbuthnot-on-the-Sea resort, a boy and a girl meet. This is the last summer of childhood for them: the boy is saving money to study at Harvard, the girl is going to secretarial courses. But everything changes with the arrival of an entertainer named Freud on a motorcycle, in the sidecar of which sits a bear named Maine... The cult film adaptation of the cult novel was directed by Tony Richardson (twice Oscar winner, winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or), starring Beau Bridges , Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski, Rob Lowe.