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The Squid and the Whale: Directed by Noah Baumbach. With Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg. Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split.
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"The Squid and the Whale" is a sad--though at times very funny--look at what divorce does to one family in 1986 New York. Jeff Daniels plays the dad, a pompous, arrogant writer whose feelings of commercial failure (he teaches literature at a university) cause him to act intellectually superior to everyone he meets.
Written and Performed by Loudon Wainwright III. Courtesy of Columbia Records. By Arrangement with SONY BMG Music Licensing. Come Sing Me a Happy Song to Prove We All Can Get Along the Lumpy, Bumpy, Long and Dusty Road. Written and Performed by Bert Jansch. Courtesy of Sanctuary Records Group.
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2006 Winner AFI Award. Movie of the Year. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE is a funny film about pain - the deep, aching pain of a family dissolved. It is rare for a film to be comedic and heartbreaking beyond cliches, but the film's standout performances capture the characters with such truth that one cannot help but feel that we've lived with them ...
Release Date. United States. January 24, 2005 (Sundance Film Festival) Canada. September 13, 2005 (Toronto International Film Festival) United States. September 26, 2005 (New York Film Festival) United States. October 5, 2005 (New York City, New York)
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The title refers to a diorama at New York City's American Museum of Natural History that depicts a whale and a giant squid locked in mortal combat.
