The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw

2019

Comedy

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 88 88

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Plot summary

As MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city to pursue her dream of designing hats or leave her boyfriend and return home to her isolated reserve to help care for her sick mother. Loyal to her family, Mitzi reluctantly returns to Owl Island to find that not much has changed. Her confidence and modern style clash with the sleepy, slow-paced island; the bullies are the same; the handsome HONEYBOY is still running the water taxi; and ANNABELLE, Mitzi’s mother is still as bitter and unloving as ever. She’s also reunited with her spiritual friends, FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY who guide her as she navigates a year of anger, loss and love. Mitzi is soon surprised to find comfort in being home and starts to question her destiny.

Director

Shelley Niro Photo
Shelley Niro

Top cast

Ajuawak Kapashesit Photo
Ajuawak Kapashesit as Honeyboy Yellowdog
Phoenix Wilson Photo
Phoenix Wilson as Background Dancer
Roseanne Supernault Photo
Roseanne Supernault as Simone Muskrat
Gail Maurice Photo
Gail Maurice as Annabelle Bearclaw
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1 hr 36 min
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1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tmdb28039023 1 / 10

The title The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi

The title The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw doesn’t lie. The twenty-fifth year of the titular Mitzi is indeed hard to believe, especially considering that the actress who plays her was closer to 30. But Mitzi wouldn't be a believable twenty-five-year-old even if she was the right age. Here is a young woman who makes hats – quite possibly the old fashioned way; i.e., using the mercuric nitrate that gave rise to the expression “mad as a hatter.” Mitzi tells her boyfriend Ringo Leaves-No-Shadow that she plans to make “life-saving hats,” and later expresses her desire to go to “hat school.” Really. Those are her words. Nobody has the heart to tell her there is no such “school” anywhere, or that “life-saving hats” already exist and are called helmets. Mitzi must put her (pipe) dreams on hold when her father writes to ask her to return to her reservation, which she calls “the island of old fools.” This is not a very nice way of referring to an indigenous reservation, which is perhaps why, in order not to offend anyone in particular, we never find out exactly to which tribe Mitzi belongs. Actually, we never really learn much about Native Americans in this movie. If we're to believe director/co-writer Shelley Niro, the whole experience comes down to arts and crafts – you better believe there's no shortage of dreamcatchers here – and having visions (or, presumably, hallucinations triggered by the aforementioned mercuric nitrate) in which other Native Americans engage in Star Trek cosplay, among other intellectual properties. When Mitzi finally arrives at the reservation (the movie starts in “October” and she arrives in “November”, but we never have any idea what day it is), we see it’s actually called “Owl Island”, population: 308 – although Mitzi's parents seem to be the only permanent residents. Once there, Mitzi completely forgets about Ringo and has eyes only for Honeyboy Yellowdog, and right about this point I stopped taking this movie seriously, what with all those ridiculous names (and I’m not saying American Indians have ridiculous names, but I do wonder how many Native Americans have names like Honeyboy Yellowdog) constantly reminding me of Fred Ward’s joke in Silkwood – which is no more offensive than anything in The Incredible 25th Year etc. and is part of a much better film.
Reviewed by donbuskirk 7 / 10

Seems Like the Real Goods

Ok, right off I'm a Whitey who doesn't have any friends from the Rez. However I have studied the plight of indigenous people, and this film seems to have the Real Goods.1. You have a protagonist with feet in both camps, like many young indigenous people who have spent time in both worlds. She's a bit naive, but sees many opportunities before her if she plays by the dominant culture rules, including the attraction of an understanding Native American guy whose Casino-fueled rez is rich enough to fund his artistic ambitions.2. But it means walking away from her broken family on a remote reserve, who need her, and they've just signaled they need her bad.3. She reluctantly agrees to visit her family, and immediately becomes enmeshed in Rez politics, which are far from harmonious.From my meagre understanding, most indigenous people face this dilemma, and there are no easy solutions, which this film handles very well.I wouldn't call this film a comedy, though I understand "gallows humour" is a way Rez dwellers use to cope. The dialogue seems believable, as does the ending (with nothing neatly wrapped up, but a choice made).There are times when the director abandons straight narration and drifts off into mystical images that are not very clear, but evoke a mind not shackled by Western Civilization-style thought processes. I like them, because they jolt me into realizing a native-educated brain just doesn't think like mine; even when it talks like mine - it has other values and priorities. That's what I mean by the Real Goods.
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