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The title The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw doesnt 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 school. Really. Those are her words. Nobody has the heart to tell her there is no such school anywhere, or that life-saving hats already exist and are called he...