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Two Lovers and a Bear

Two Lovers and a Bear

Drama · Romance · 2016

Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

Movie details

Two Lovers and a Bear

2016 Drama · Romance 1h 36m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.0 / 10

2.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

84 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

61 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Two Lovers and a Bear?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kim Nguyen

Written by

Kim Nguyen

Dane DeHaan

Dane DeHaan

Roman

Tatiana Maslany

Tatiana Maslany

Lucy

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

Bear (voice)

John Ralston

John Ralston

Lucy's Father

Joel Gagne

Joel Gagne

American Hunter

Jeffrey R. Smith

Jeffrey R. Smith

Taxi Client

Johnny Issaluk

Johnny Issaluk

Charlie

Court is in session

Put Two Lovers and a Bear on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.