THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (SPECIAL EDITION) (BILINGUAL) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager whose writer-parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. The film is squirmy-funny and nakedly honest about the rationalizations and compensatory snobbisms or artistic failure as well as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex and status. In detailling bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn, Baumbach is spot on. Everyone proceeds from good intensions and acts rather badly, in spite or because of their manifest intelligence. Fulfilling the best traditions of the American independent film, this quirky, wisely written feature explores the gulf between sexes, generations, art and commerce, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
• 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: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Destination Films, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc.
• Media Format: Movie