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Infinitely Polar Bear
Cameron, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder. After a breakdown forces him to leave his family and move into a halfway house, he attempts to rebuild a relationship with his two daughters, and win back the trust of his wife Maggie. When Maggie decides to go to business school in New York, they decide that he will move back in and take care of the day-to-day care for the kids. Due to his mercurial nature, this leads to a series of quirky, funny, and sometimes frightening episodes.
12 October 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 March 1983, New Jersey, USA
26 February 1978, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
26 October 1977, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 27, 2016
Accessible, entertaining and well acted.April 02, 2016
Infinitely Polar Bear features an endearing turn by Mark Ruffalo and will bring a smile to your face.July 23, 2015
"Infinitely Polar Bear" is a much-needed reminder that the realm of film is still a place to encounter something other than comic-book scenarios.January 01, 2016
Forbes' drama is very moving and has great compassion for Cameron, without turning him into some sort of saint or excusing him for his recklessness.July 03, 2015
It's ultimately a feel-good movie with some poignant moments ...July 28, 2015
Ruffalo is generally wonderful at finding the tone and mood of a character and holding to it; here he has to bounce about, but again he latches onto a consistent energy that makes Cameron a singular life force.July 03, 2015
Deeply personal and filled with love, Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear is nonetheless a hard movie to watch - hard to watch comfortably.July 16, 2015
Forbes' sweetness of tone and wise casting makes "Infinitely Polar Bear" irresistible.April 11, 2016
Writer/director Maya Forbes' autobiographical fingerprints are all over Infinitely Polar Bear, a disarmingly joyful recollection of being raised by her bipolar father in the 1970s...yet the film feels universal.June 20, 2016
Cynics may scoff at the fact that Infinitely Polar Bear glosses some of the filmmaker's darker memories, but they'll need an ice bucket handy if they intend to avoid its warmth altogether.February 29, 2016
First-timer Forbes's earnest resolve to demystify bipolar disorder prevents her film from establishing a satisfying story arc. Ruffalo is good though.