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Black Bear

6.3(315)20201h 46m2

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

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival24 Jan 2020
    • Digital / OTTProvincetown Film Festival16 Jul 2020
    • Theatrical (limited)R4 Dec 2020
    • Digital / OTTRVOD4 Dec 2020
    • PhysicalR4 Dec 2020
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1523 Apr 2021
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)12 Aug 2020
  • CanadaCA

    • Digital / OTTCinéfest Sudbury22 Sept 2020
    • Digital / OTTCIFF & VIFF24 Sept 2020
    • PremiereCalgary International Film Festival (CIFF)3 Oct 2020
    • Theatrical (limited)4 Dec 2020
    • Digital / OTTVOD4 Dec 2020
  • GreeceGR

    • PremiereAthens International Film Festival26 Sept 2020
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1523 Apr 2021
  • UkraineUA

    • PremiereMolodist Kyiv International Film Festival22 Aug 2020

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Black Bear was released on 4 December 2020.

Audience reviews

3
  • T

    tmdb15435519

    4/15/2021

    7/10

    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

  • R

    r96sk

    3/2/2022

    7/10

    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_Walki…

  • T

    tmdb28039023

    8/28/2022

    4/10

    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 …

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