Hair of the Bear vs Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for Looking for Mr. Goodbar). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 16m. Looking for Mr. Goodbar is the older of the two (1977 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS Looking for Mr. Goodbar posterLooking for Mr. Goodbar1977
Hair of the BearLooking for Mr. Goodbar
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.3/10
Year20261977
Length1h 32m2h 16m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanRichard Brooks
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceRichard Gere, William Atherton, Tom Berenger, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.

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