The Squid and the Whale
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- Synopsis
- Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing....
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- Starring
- Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin
- Director(s)
- Noah Baumbach
- Distributor(s)
- Samuel Goldwyn
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 81 min.
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Critic Reviews
In hovering, The Squid and the Whale becomes its own realistic display of family entropy, as cautionary as it is educational.Read the full review
Both sharply comical and piercingly sad. Mr. Baumbach surveys the members of the flawed, collapsing Berkman family with sympathy but without mercy, noting their individual and collective failures and imperfections with relentless precision.Read the full review
Acutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry.Read the full review
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