The Squid and the Whale
The Squid and the Whale

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In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "philistines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Squid and the Whale:

Jeff Daniels
Laura Linney
Jesse Eisenberg
Owen Kline
William Baldwin
Halley Feiffer

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In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "philistines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 10/10 by Duane DudekThe film has been nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards -- including nominations as best picture and best director.
Charlotte Observer - 10/10 by Lawrence ToppmanSquid keeps you on your toes, but payoffs will have you smiling - maybe in rueful recognition of the truth - in scene after scene.
Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/10 by Carrie RickeyInsightful, funny-sad memoir of divorce, intellectual style and emotional rebirth.
Film Freak Central - 10/10 by Walter ChawA scabrous ode to the unmanageable muddle of interpersonal relationships.
ViewLondon - 10/10 by Matthew TurnerBeautifully written, moving and frequently hilarious drama with terrific performances and superb, Oscar-nominated dialogue - this is one of the best films of the year.
Los Angeles Times - 10/10 by Kenneth TuranAcutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry.
Spirituality and Practice - 10/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatAn open house that allows us to enter and freely share in the emotional upheavals of all the characters in this dysfunctional family.
Seattle Weekly - 10/10 by Tim AppeloThe most impressive debut at Sundance was Noah Baumbach's wickedly, heartbreakingly funny divorce drama, The Squid and the Whale. A time-capsule keeper.
Premiere - 10/10 by Glenn KennyIt's a rare film that can be convincingly tender, bitterly funny, and ruthlessly cutting over the course of fewer than 90 minutes. The Squid and the Whale not only manages this, it also contains moments that sock you with all three qualities at the same time.
Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Allison BenediktSteering clear of phony melodrama and indie pretense, Baumbach captures a crisis in one family's life that, though it shakes the foundation, leaves all four Berkmans drifting toward highs and lows unknown, each of them only dimly aware that, no matter what the movies tell us, we never really come of age.

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