When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
There’s a place in movies for characters who are grandiose spewing narcissists, like Richard E. Grant’s counterculture rotter in “Withnail & I” or Meryl Streep’s witty control freak of a druggie showbiz daughter in “Postcards from the Edge.”
Directed by Richard Linklater, Bernadette snuggles into place within a fairly reliable sub-genre — traceable past Eat, Pray, Love , Under the Tuscan Sun , How Stella Got Her Groove Back to at least as far back as the 1989 hit Shirley Valentine .