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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Laura Linney & Owen Kline | |
Performer: | William Baldwin, Anna Paquin & Ken Leung | |
Directed by | Noah Baumbach | |
Music by | Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips | |
Screenwriting by | Noah Baumbach | |
Produced by | Wes Anderson & Peter Newman | |
Director of Photography: | Robert D. Yeoman |
Entertainment Reviews:
[B]oth sharply comical and piercingly sad....The film's tableau of domestic absurdity is likely to tickle, and also to lacerate, anyone who has either raised a child or been one.
New York Times
Try as he might to cut to the frayed nerves of a scene, Baumbach lets cuteness get in the way
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CinePassion
[A] painfully funny, semiautobiographical coming-of-age story....Baumbach is exceptionally attuned to the indignities of the situation, and what makes his movie as funny as it is sad is that its brutal honesty emanates from a deep well of empathy and understanding.
Los Angeles Times
Baumbach has crafted this tale out of real love....[He] tells the story with great fluidity....It's a breakthrough work and one of the year's most powerful pictures.
Premiere
A simple but engrossing parable of a family set in half, and their children having to choose sides.
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Cinema Crazed
5 stars out of 5 -- [T]his charming film swims a complex channel between comedy and melodrama....A great white middle-class film. A truly great one.
Uncut
Never maudlin or overly precious, this comedy/drama is sharp, smart and short.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Product Description:
Noah Baumbach's THE SQUID AND THE WHALE is an excruciatingly humane, often hilarious portrait of a disintegrating family in mid-1980s Brooklyn. Set in the stately yet off-kilter neighborhood of Park Slope, the film tells the story of the Berkmans, a quintessentially New York family struggling to keep things together. Family patriarch Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a published author and writing teacher whose insecurity over his own lack of recognition continues to plague him. Meanwhile, his wife, Joan (Laura Linney), is grappling with her own sense of unsettlement. Their sons, who are caught in the crossfire, express their confusion in different ways: 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) tries to pass off Pink Floyd's "Hey You" as his own hit in the school talent show, while his 12-year-old brother Frank (Owen Kline) begins to explore his burgeoning sexuality and alcoholism. When Bernard and Joan finally decide to separate, the family must confront their unraveling situation head on.
Rarely has family dysfunction been captured so frankly and honestly as in THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. Baumbach claims his film is only semi-autobiographical, but, from the pitch-perfect writing and nostalgic tone, it feels as if we're watching home videos of the writer-director's past. Featuring an outstanding pop-music soundtrack (Bert Jansch, the Feelies, Lou Reed), the film also boasts performances that seem certain to earn end-of-the-year accolades.
Rarely has family dysfunction been captured so frankly and honestly as in THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. Baumbach claims his film is only semi-autobiographical, but, from the pitch-perfect writing and nostalgic tone, it feels as if we're watching home videos of the writer-director's past. Featuring an outstanding pop-music soundtrack (Bert Jansch, the Feelies, Lou Reed), the film also boasts performances that seem certain to earn end-of-the-year accolades.
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