The Squid and the Whale
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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"Greetings again from the darkness. Writer/Director (and Wes Anderson collaborator) Noah Baumbach presents a semi-autobiographical therapy session where he unleashes the anguish and turmoil that has carried over from his childhood. The result is an amazing insight into what many people go through in a desperate attempt to try and make their family work. The casting of Jeff Daniels forces us to view him as the grown up Flap from "Terms of Endearment". He has become a bitter, unfocused, pompous ass of a person, father, husband and professor. The inability to recapture the magic of his ..."
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According to director Noah Baumbach, Jesse Eisenberg auditioned 9 times for the part of Walt.
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Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.