Black Bear

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.

Cast

Aubrey Plaza

as Allison

Christopher Abbott

as Gabe

Sarah Gadon

as Blair

Paola Lázaro

as Cahya

Grantham Coleman

as Baako

Lindsay Burdge

as Maude

Lou Gonzalez

as Chris

Shannon O'Neill

as Simone

Alexander Koch

as Mike

Jennifer Kim

as Nora

Reviews

tmdb15435519

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...

r96sk

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 d...

tmdb28039023

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 cal...

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