The trailer for Brigsby Bear, the new dramedy starring and co-written by Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney, has finally arrived. The film was widely acclaimed when it premiered at Sundance back in January, and it features a stacked cast that includes Mark Hamill, Claire Danes, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, and Andy Samberg. The film also has some big-name producers in the guys from the Lonely Island and the duo of Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie). And it’s the first feature directed by Dave McCary, a member of Mooney and Beck Bennett’s sketch group Good Neighbor and the man who has directed some of the best SNL pre-taped segments from the past couple of years, such as the endearingly charming but cringeworthy “Flirty.”
The trailer is short, but it gets across a vibe reminiscent of Spike Jonze’s work—it’s images are at once poignant, surreal, and quirky. In other words, it looks exactly how you would expect a movie from Kyle Mooney to look. While the trailer doesn’t give away much of the film’s plot, Brigsby Bear tells the story of James (Kyle Mooney), who was kidnapped at a young age and raised by two people he believes are his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams), and is obsessed with an elaborate children’s TV show called Brigsby Bear that, unbeknownst to James, is a show that is produced only for him and watched only by him. The movie will arrive in theaters, where it can be watched by you and many other people, on July 28.
