SummaryIt’s April in Anaconda, Montana, and headstrong teenager Mickey Peck (Camila Morrone) is doing what she can to keep her single, veteran father (James Badge Dale) afloat, navigating his mercurial moods, opioid addiction, and grief over the loss of his wife. Secretly, Mickey fantasizes of going to college on the west coast and finally living life o... Read More
Directed By:Annabelle Attanasio
Written By:Annabelle Attanasio
Mickey and the Bear
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Generally Favorable
79
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6.7
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Dec 12, 2019
100
This is one of the most exciting breakout films of the year, introducing Attanasio as a vibrant new voice in American cinema. More, please.
Nov 13, 2019
88
It's worth seeking out for the way it observes psychologically complex small-town characters struggling to endure present-day hardships and past traumas.
Nov 21, 2019
80
It’s all a very believable, close-quarters theater of exhaustion and pain, with moments of lightness and warmth that only add to the difficulty of Mickey’s predicament, and all of it captured in alluring fixed images of depth and color by cinematographer Conor Murphy.
Dec 4, 2019
78
Morrone is superb in the part, exuding a sort of saintly solitude while caught up in the midst of turmoil from within and without. Even at its most dire, Mickey and the Bear is tinged with an almost holy hope for all involved, a rare and remarkable feat to pull off so well for a first-time director indeed.
Nov 12, 2019
75
Mickey and the Bear is to be relished for its performances and its gritty indie cinema sense of place.
Mar 20, 2019
70
Straightforward but skillfully nuanced ... There’s nothing wildly original in form or content to this modest tale. But it’s never obvious or melodramatic, delivering a satisfying degree of emotional resonance while providing James Badge Dale an arresting role as the problematic dad.
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6.7
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Nov 27, 2021
6
This is a bleak film, which had a couple of surprisingly poignant moments towards the end, in terms of the situations/scenarios and, primarily, the dialogue. I quite liked the cinematography, although it is certainly cliched and perhaps somewhat predictable. The plot is a little plodding and I wouldn't say this is more than a reasonably good film but yes, it's ok, though I wouldn't go out of your way to see it as such, no.
Aug 11, 2020
5
I was so disappointed. I thought this was about a truck driver with a chimpanzee named Bear.
