ozlemk-93552 Fantastic, real touch to feelings, one of the best way to feel the family spirit. And you can't stop your tears falling down while watching Mark Ruffalo.. Definitely one of the best movie that you can ever watch if you want to have a real emotional touch to your heart... Be ready to smile and cry at the most unexpected time...

shlunka Maya Forbes skillfully directs a loving tail about a man's frail grip with his emotions, and with his sanity. Even looser is his connection with his daughters and wife. Mark Ruffalo's character is attempting to reign in more things than an octopi cowboy while drinking enough to whet Nick Nolte's appetite. His character makes me think that Adam Sandler and Hunter S. Thompson hopped in the Brundle teleportation machines to create a fragile but dominating human embodiment of a flailing bee. Or High Fidelity occurring inside your hippocampus set to a groovy soundtrack. The only issue I had with the film was the director's attempt at painting too many biographies in such a short screen time. I related most with Ruffalo's character (being manic depressive myself), and found it very difficult to do this when the true centerpiece of the film rests in the children (who Ruffalo and Saldana also focus on, with an occasional squint at each other for the first half of the film). All in all, a fun movie that doesn't demand much of your time. It's a delicate character study of a brilliant but fragile man's relationship with his initially frightened peers.

LA Carlson If you're a fan of actor Mark Ruffalo this is one of his most moving performances. It will give viewers who aren't aware of what it's like to live with someone who is bi-polar an accurate picture of the roller coaster ride. It's a bit like watching a train wreck you want to stop watching because it's sad, intense and yet you feel compelled to keep your eyes fixed because those who live and love people effected by this disease are courageous. Ruffalo is joined by strong performances of Zoe Saldana, Ashley Aufderheide and Imogene Wolodarsky as wife and daughters. It's a movie about survival and love. We know once we fall in love with someone it's a powerful addiction regardless of how this human being lives. A the end of the day love is truly love. A movie every adult should see.

TxMike Maya Forbes is a writer and also directs this movie which is mostly autobiographical but with name changes. Her real-life daughter, Imogene, plays the role that would have been Maya in the late 1970s. She is part of a prestigious family in New England and that is depicted in the movie. For example she is related to U.S. Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry.Mark Ruffalo is Cam Stuart (the real father was Cam Forbes), a free spirit in the 1960s, when he met his eventual wife, Zoe Saldana as Maggie. What was endearing as 20-somethings eventually became a large burden a decade later as they were raising their family with two young girls. You see Cam is bipolar, and to a child "polar bear" was a good substitute name. He was an infinitely polar bear.Essentially broke and with Cam just out of therapy after one of his breakdowns, Maggie decides to get additional education so that she can get a better job to support Cam and the girls. She leaves them in Boston as she goes to New York on an 18-month program to get her MBA.Most of the movie is about the trials Cam and the girls have, living together in a small, often messy place, with Cam doing the best he could to be a good father and mother. This part is likely very accurate as the writer-director was one of the girls growing up in the situation.With difficulty it worked and unable to find suitable employment as a black woman in Boston Maggie takes a job in NY which allows the girls to go to private school and get good educations. Although it isn't covered past that point it seems that Maggie and Cam were destined to just slip farther apart while being good parents to the girls.