Review: ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Traces a Dad’s Ups and Downs. Photo. From left, Imogene Wolodarsky, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana (at rear) and Ashley Aufderheide in “Infinitely Polar Bear,” a film from the first- time feature director Maya Forbes.

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Credit. Claire Folger/Sony Pictures Classics In movies, true- life family stories tend to come so drenched in despair or smothered in treacle that it’s a surprise anyone gets out intact. In her sweet, somewhat nutty feature debut, “Infinitely Polar Bear,” the writer- director Maya Forbes looks back on her 1. Scrooge for thinking it’s a bit of a snow job. That’s especially the case because the father here, Cam Stuart (the infinitely warm Mark Ruffalo), is an endearingly down- and- out eccentric with manic depression. Cam is wearing tiny red briefs and not much else when he makes his big entrance, tearing toward his family on a bicycle in the middle of what appears to be a full- blown manic episode. At that early point in the story, his eldest, Amelia (Imogene Wolodarsky), has already more or less warned you about Cam, having sketched out his past in one of those breezy family- album introductions that turn lives into highlight reels: Harvard, diagnosis, marriage and children. In voice- over, Amelia, who’s around 1.

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Maggie (Zoe Saldana), “didn’t care” about Cam’s illness and that the family was happy even if “there’s more to it than that.” A few beats later, Cam is coming on like a storm in those red shorts while Maggie is hustling suitcases and children into a car. Video. Clip: ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’A bipolar man struggles to keep his demons at bay when he must care for his two daughters while their mother is off starting a career. By Sony Pictures Classics on Publish Date June 1.

Image courtesy of Internet Video Archive. Watch Safari Streaming. Watch in Times Video »The frightened look on Maggie’s face suggests that there’s much more to her and Cam’s story, though we never learn if theirs is a soul connection, an erotic attraction or a delusion. Whatever the reason, she sticks with Cam although he can’t hold down a job and she wants to send Amelia and their youngest, Faith (Ashley Aufderheide), to private schools. It’s a measure of how Ms.

Forbes handles heavy issues that one of the few times she folds race into the story is when Maggie, who’s black, gently tells Cam that while it may be charming when white people live in squalor, it isn’t when black people do. Cam doesn’t need a lecture on race, just a reality check.

After dispensing one, Maggie goes off to Columbia University to earn an M. B. A., parking her family in Cambridge, Mass., and promising to visit on weekends. In many ways, Maggie is the most interesting character in the movie, partly because of her ambition, partly because of how she navigates race. But she’s also underwritten, and the grit that she initially exhibits fades amid the laughter and mothering. When she’s home it’s with a family that, depending on Cam’s moods, is either giddily alive or on the verge of disaster, but somehow always humming forward.

Ms. Forbes’s bouncy approach can seem wildly off- key as the screaming fights, questionable parenting choices and sad days pile up. The movie isn’t altogether believable in some of its ordinary details (the family’s apartment is more bohemian dishabille than squalid) or in its characterizations, perhaps because Ms. Forbes remembers it this way or simply likes accentuating the positive.

Maggie strains credibility; Cam playfully demolishes it. He’s part Daffy Duck, part magical madman, and about the cuddliest, most adorable mentally ill character imaginable. That’s in keeping with the rest of this movie, which — from its cute title to a jangly musical score that’s sweetened with clapping and childish voices — remains insistently upbeat, so much so that it, too, can feel as if it were in the grip of a manic episode. It’s an approach that can make this a tough story to fall for, and wouldn’t work in a film that engages with mental illness as a cause. But in “Infinitely Polar Bear,” Ms. Forbes hasn’t made a movie about her father’s illness; she’s made one about her father, who, through hard and weird times, clearly helped give her what she needed so that one day she could tell this story.“Infinitely Polar Bear” is rated R (Under 1.

Tough love and words. Infinitely Polar Bear. Director. Maya Forbes. Writer. Maya Forbes. Stars. Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide.

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