The result is a naturally strange but ultimately very sweet movie about how we use art and creativity to make sense of our disheveled realities.
Mark Hamill’s layered supporting turn recognizes the inspiration that he planted in his criminally adopted son, while never excusing the lingering trauma his character’s actions caused.
Once Kyle Mooney’s character realizes that everything he once knew was a complete lie, he sets out to make a Brigsby Bear movie in order to cope with what became of his fragile ecosystem.
As an overly-attached sheltered father raising his son as though he were still a child (even though he’s well into his 20s) it’s revealed that Mark Hamill’s Ted has secretly abducted this man as a baby, and this failed inventor and his wife have spent the last 20-something years raising this boy through the fictional educational series, Brigsby Bear.