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The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

2002 · 75 min

A gentle, hand-drawn fable about belonging that feels like a storybook read aloud, tender but with a quiet ache underneath.

Overview
When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • found family
  • nature
  • love
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism2
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
adventure, animation, family
Directed by
Jannik Hastrup
Written by
Bent Haller
Starring
Marlon Vilstrup, Joachim Boje Helvang, Otto Brandenburg, Paprika Steen, Tommy Kenter, Thomas Bo Larsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Anne Clausen
Music
Bruno Coulais
Runtime
75 min
Country
Denmark, France
Languages
Danish

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