A Different Kind of Marriage Plot: Talking with the “Helen and the Bear” Filmmakers

A Different Kind of Marriage Plot: Talking with the “Helen and the Bear” Filmmakers

When they tie the knot in 1982, Helen Hooper and Pete McCloskey are both a likely and utterly unlikely match. Pete is an anti-war Republican congressman and divorced father of four. Freespirited Helen, a political aide in his office, is 26 years his junior. Both share a lust for life and fierce love of California, in all it is and could be. In Helen and the Bear, Alix Blair’s solo debut documentary screening at Full Frame Documentary Film Festiv…