Film
Brigsby Bear
- Director
- Dave McCary
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 97 mins
Not a Paddington cash-in, as you might suspect, but yet another of those wafer-thin Sundance indie comedy-drama hits that aims to gets by on warm humour, wry characterisation and self-conscious quirkiness.
It’s the story of naïve, innocent and vulnerable 25-year-old James Pope (co-writer Kyle Mooney), who’s confined to an underground bunker by his parents (Jane Adams, Mark Hamill) and has become obsessed with the live-action kids’ TV show Brigsby Bear Adventures. But after a police raid, he learns that his whole life is a lie. The people he thinks of as his parents actually abducted him from the hospital where he was born and made Brigsby Bear Adventures just for him. Unwilling to face the truth, he sets out to recruit collaborators who’ll help him finish the Brigsby Bear story in feature film format. US critics were broadly divided between those who praised this for its sweetness and charm and harder-hearted types who found it hollow and self-congratulatory
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