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Storyline

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.

Released

2020-12-04
Revenue

n/a
Budget

n/a
Runtime

1hr 46m
Genre

Drama, Thriller
Status

Released
Language

English, Español
6.5
Production

Blue Creek Pictures, Oakhurst Entertainment, Tandem Pictures

Crew

Lawrence Michael Levine

Director

Lawrence Michael Levine

Writer

Julie Christeas

Producer

Keywords:

jealousy love triangle pregnancy dark comedy writer's block cabin in the woods filmmaking house guest lake house

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Cast

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Christopher Abbott

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Blair

Paola Lázaro

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Lindsay Burdge

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Reviews for Black Bear

A Review by tmdb15435519 7

Written by tmdb15435519 on 2021-04-15

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... read more

A Review by r96sk 7

Written by r96sk on 2022-03-02

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... read more

A Review by tmdb28039023 4

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-08-28

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 ... read more

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 of a cliffhanger —for lack of a better term — that segues into BB2.The second half is a meta-textual quagmire wherein there’s a movie-within-the-movie, but that inner movie isn’t really the movie we were watching thus far, so presumably there’s a hypothetical third movie buried somewhere in this conceptual nightmare. If BB1 was a about a train wreck from which we could not take our eyes off, BB2 is just a train wreck, period. The only quality that crosses over from the first half is the acting, which is probably even better — but that just makes me feel sorry for the cast. All things considered, what we have here are two drafts of the same admittedly good idea, which doesn’t equal a single finished product. Instead of going back to the drawing board, the writer/director has simply opted to present the same underdeveloped premise twice in a row, both times neglecting to come up with a proper conclusion.

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A Review by tmdb15435519

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...

A Review by tmdb15435519 7

Written by tmdb15435519 on 2021-04-15

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...

A Review by r96sk 7

Written by r96sk on 2022-03-02

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 f...