
Cry Wilderness(1987)
A Bigfoot-type creature befriends Paul, a young student. His father is a park ranger trying to capture an escaped tiger. Everyone in town is on edge and wants the tiger killed. David tries to keep Bigfoot a secret.


“One Boy. One Sasquatch. One Big Friendship.”
A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Initially experiencing little success, his popularity increases when he convinces a Sasquatch to join the team.
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Richard Thomas
Victor Dewlap
Trevor Jones
Ed Tibbetts

Greg Thirloway
Mr. Donovan
Robert Burke
Picasso Dewlap

Chilton Crane
Elizabeth Dewlap

Donnelly Rhodes
Ludlow Bumstock

Fred Keating
Rockweed Coach
Big and Hairy is a family, tv movie, fantasy film released in 1998 exploring themes of bigfoot. Directed by Philip Spink, it stars Richard Thomas, Trevor Jones, Greg Thirloway. A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Initially experiencing little success, his popularity increases when he convinces a Sasquatch to join the team.
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