THE SQUID AND THE WHALE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style—a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, and Laura Linney, this comic and poignant drama deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.;
• Cast: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin, David Benger, Anna Paquin, Molly Barton, Bo Berkman, Matthew Kaplan, Simon Kaplan, Matthew Kirsch, Daniella Markowicz, Elizabeth Meriwether, Ben Schrank, Amy Srebnick, Josh Srebnick, Emma Straub, Alan Wilkis, James Hamilton, Adam Rose, Henry Glovinsky, Eli Gelb, Halley Feiffer, Wayne Lawson, Michael Santiago, Juan Torriente, Patricia Towers, Peggy Gormley, Peter Newman, Greta Kline, Melissa Meyer, Benjamin Smolen, Michael Countryman, Alexandra Daddario, Nico Baumbach, Maryann Plunkett, Hector Otero, Ken Leung, Jo Yang, Joyce DeWitt, Andrew Kaempfer, Bobby Shue, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz, Robert D. Yeoman, Tim Streeto, Britta Phillips, Dean Wareham, Lewis Goldstein, Anne Ross, Jennifer Dehghan
• Director: Noah Baumbach
• Runtime: 1:21
• Company: Squid and Whale, Inc., Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Releasing International, Destination Films, Original Media, ambush entertainment, Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP), American Empirical Pictures, Peter Newman Productions, InterAL, Seven Hills Pictures, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie