“I’m not going anywhere,” Camila Morrone (“Never Going Back”) promises her dad in the trailer for “Mickey and the Bear.” The prospect of leaving must be tempting — after all she’s a teenager taking care of an opioid addict and running her household — but Morrone’s Mickey is adamant about standing by her father (James Badge Dale, “Little Woods”).
“This is too much for a kid,” Mickey is told in the spot. “Yeah, well, he’s my dad,” she responds, implying that you do whatever you can for your family.
Noble as that may be, it often makes Mickey’s life hell. “You know some days I can’t even get him to eat?” she mentions. She’s the one who patches her father up when he’s in recovery or has been beaten up. And she suspects he has been stealing her cash.
“You got something to say, come out and say it,” her father taunts her. “Where is my money?” she asks calmly before her frustration finally gets the better of her.
Writer-director Annabelle Attanasio’s feature debut, “Mickey and the Bear” premiered at SXSW this year and screened in Cannes’ ACID sidebar and at various other fests. It opens in NY November 13 and in LA November 22 before opening wide November 29.
