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Teenage girl navigates relationship with her veteran father.

In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home. Mickey and the Bear is an essential coming-of-age story, told from the unique perspective of a strong, unrelenting female protagonist. In emancipating herself from the responsibilities imposed upon her by her father, Mickey’s narrative is hopeful – despite the pain of leaving Hank behind, she is finally free to pursue independence as a young woman. “An almost perfectly realized drama that feels as if it was time-warped in from 40 or 50 years ago, when people still wanted to see movies about people living in the actual world” – Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com