Anyone who doesn't know going in that "Infinitely Polar Bear" is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

There’s no one right way to show mental illness in the movies, yet there are hundreds of ways to get it wrong. Even though certain disorders come with specific traits, a diagnosis is not a human being ...

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Anyone who doesn’t know going in that “Infinitely Polar Bear” is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

“Infinitely Polar Bear,” based on writer/director Maya Forbes’ experiences growing up with a manic-depressive father, could have gone wrong in so many ways. And it almost did: The title (based on a ...

As the parents of a young man who has bipolar disorder—and who still lives in our basement when others his age are “launching” successfully—my wife and I often wonder and worry about a number of ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Anyone who doesn’t know going in that “Infinitely Polar Bear” is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

In the movies we’ve seen countless tales told through the eyes of (usually now grown-up) children all about the wild, wacky adventures they experienced with their unconventional, non-conformist ...

Opposite Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo plays a bipolar father trying to care for two children while his wife goes away to school. By THR Staff A seriocomic portrait of a family coping with one parent’s ...