NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Forbes and her daughter Imogene Wolodarsky about their new film, Infinitely Polar Bear. Forbes wrote and directed the fictionalized take on her own childhood.

We measure on average 1.70 meters (about 5 feet 7 inches). A common height that seems normal in our human-scale world. Yet, when we compare it to the smallest and largest conceivable distances in the ...

Anyone who doesn’t know going in that “Infinitely Polar Bear” is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

Anyone who doesn’t know going in that “Infinitely Polar Bear” is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

As the son of a psychotherapist, mental disorders were often dinner table conversation growing up. She was very keen on setting the facts of these illnesses apart from the (usually) incorrect ...

There’s no one right way to show mental illness in the movies, yet there are hundreds of ways to get it wrong. Even though certain disorders come with specific traits, a diagnosis is not a human being ...

“Infinitely Polar Bear,” based on writer/director Maya Forbes’ experiences growing up with a manic-depressive father, could have gone wrong in so many ways. And it almost did: The title (based on a ...

Researchers have designed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light can travel infinitely fast. Electrons are so 20th century. In the 21st century ...

In the movies we’ve seen countless tales told through the eyes of (usually now grown-up) children all about the wild, wacky adventures they experienced with their unconventional, non-conformist ...

Opposite Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo plays a bipolar father trying to care for two children while his wife goes away to school. By THR Staff A seriocomic portrait of a family coping with one parent’s ...