- Drama, Thriller
- 106 min
- R
Rotten Tomatoes89%Metacritic79IMDb6.5
At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.
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Contemporary, intimate, open-ended and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20224/10
I’d really like to like Black Bear. I actually was really liking it a lot, even enjoying it, right up to the halfway point, where the whole thing comes crashing down faster than Kevin Spacey’s career. Black Bear is divided into two parts; The Bear on the Road, and The Bear by the House (let’s call them BB1 and BB2); both parts end with the appearance of the titular Ursus americanus, but could very well have ended with a sign saying ‘Dead End’. In a remote lake house in the Adirondacks, Gabe (Christopher Abbott) and Blair (Sarah Gadon), welcome Allison (Aubrey Plaza), an up-and-coming film director. Like the stereotypical artists, these three are creative and intelligent, but also childish and belligerent. Allison is a bald-faced pathological liar, Gabe is immature and manipulative, and Blair doesn’t let her pregnancy get in the way of a burgeoning alcoholism (the casting, by the way, is spot-on). Their interactions are fraught with patronizing passive-aggressiveness.This is plain good ol’ rubbernecking fun. The dialogue is both obscene and highbrow(I especially enjoyed the use of the word “solipsistic”), but sadly the biggest insult, to the audience’s intelligence, takes the form o
Read the whole review on TMDB - r96skon TMDB · Mar 20227/10
Aubrey Plaza is terrific in this! <em>'Black Bear'</em> is intriguing from beginning to end. I did find the first half to be the stronger and most interesting part, though the conclusion is still fairly captivating all the same. As noted, Plaza is excellent throughout - she carries the film, no doubt. Christopher Abbott has a few moments, while it's neat to see <em>'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">The Walking Dead</a>'</em> newcomer Paola Lázaro involved.
Read the whole review on TMDB - tmdb15435519on TMDB · Apr 20217/10
a movie within a movie within a movie. epic... except it's not I do want to see Aubrey Plaza in more lead roles though
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Cast
- Aubrey PlazaAllison
- Christopher AbbottGabe
- Sarah GadonBlair
- Paola LázaroCahya
- Grantham ColemanBaako
- Lindsay BurdgeMaude
- Lou GonzalezChris
- Shannon O'NeillSimone
- Alexander KochMike
- Jennifer KimNora
Crew
- Lawrence Michael LevineDirector
- Lawrence Michael LevineWriter
- Rob LeitzellDirector of Photography
- Bryan ScaryOriginal Music Composer
- Giulio CarmassiOriginal Music Composer
- Matthew L. WeissEditor
- Julie ChristeasProducer
- Jonathan BlitsteinProducer
- Richard J. BosnerProducer
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