Mickey is a small-town Montana teenager, who has seen a little too much life for her age. Having lost her mother to cancer, she has become a full-time caretaker for her volatile and ungrateful father Hank, an Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Mickey is between a rock and a hard place, as the only visible life alternative – an early marriage and a young pregnancy – is equally suffocating. A tightly woven and multilayered coming-of-age drama that builds its climax in an accumulation of low-key heartbreaking glimpses.
Mickey and the Bear
Mickey and the Bear
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Annabelle Attanasio
- Script: Annabelle Attanasio
- Cinematography: Conor Murphy
- Editing: Henry Hayes
- Sound: Hunter Berk
- Music: Brian McComber, Angel Deradoorian
- Actors: Camila Morrone, James Badge Dale, Calvin Demba, Ben Rosenfield, Rebecca Henderson
- Production: Thick Media, Shorelight Media
- Producers: Lizzie Shapiro, Taylor Shung, Anja Murmann, Sabine Schenk
- Executive producer: George Brock
- Sets: Katie Fleming
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: USA
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 89΄
- Contact: Utopia Films
- Awards/Distinctions: Grand Jury Prize – Independent FF of Boston 2019, Audible Storyteller Award, Future/Now – Montclair FF 2019
Annabelle Attanasio
Annabelle Attanasio is an American actress, director and screenwriter. She was a main cast member of the CBS legal drama Bull throughout the first two seasons and participated in the second season of the Cinemax drama The Knick. She has written, directed and starred in a number of short films. Her feature directorial debut Mickey and the Bear premiered at the South by Southwest festival.
Filmography
2014 Anchovies (short)
2016 Frankie Keeps Talking (short)
2019 Mickey and the Bear
2016 Frankie Keeps Talking (short)
2019 Mickey and the Bear