NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Forbes and her daughter Imogene Wolodarsky about their new film, Infinitely Polar Bear. Forbes wrote and directed the fictionalized take on her own childhood.

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 ...

Maya Forbes’s first film, “Infinitely Polar Bear,” is an offbeat comic drama in which Cam (Mark Ruffalo), a bipolar father from an old Yankee family, cares for his two young daughters in Cambridge, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...