The title The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw doesn’t lie. The twenty-fifth year of the titular Mitzi is indeed hard to believe, especially considering that the actress who plays her was closer to 30. But Mitzi wouldn't be a believable twenty-five-year-old even if she was the right age. Here is a young woman who makes hats – quite possibly the old fashioned way; i.e., using the mercuric nitrate that gave rise to the expression “mad as a hatter.”

Mitzi tells her boyfriend Ringo Leaves-No-Shadow that she plans to make “life-saving hats,” and later expresses her desire to go to “hat scho... read the rest.