Storyline
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Directors
Cast
Ken Leung, Jesse Eisenberg, Alexandra Daddario, Michael Santiago, Jo Yang, Jeff Daniels, Adam Rose, Laura Linney, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin, Maryann Plunkett, Elizabeth Meriwether, Owen Kline, David Benger, Halley Feiffer, Molly Barton, Bo Berkman, Matthew Kaplan, Simon Kaplan, Matthew Kirsch, Daniella Markowicz, Ben Schrank, Amy Srebnick, Josh Srebnick, Emma Straub, Alan Wilkis, James Hamilton, Henry Glovinsky, Eli Gelb, Wayne Lawson, Juan Torriente, Patricia Towers, Peggy Gormley, Greta Kline, Melissa Meyer, Benjamin Smolen, Michael Countryman, Nico Baumbach, Hector Otero, Andrew Kaempfer, Bobby Shue
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Reviews
91
Entertainment Weekly
In hovering, The Squid and the Whale becomes its own realistic display of family entropy, as cautionary as it is educational.
90
The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny.
90
Both sharply comical and piercingly sad. Mr. Baumbach surveys the members of the flawed, collapsing Berkman family with sympathy but without mercy, noting their individual and collective failures and imperfections with relentless precision.
88
New York Daily News
A great divorce movie. It's also one of the canniest comedies ever made about a certain kind of literary pretension.
88
New York Post
With its dry wit and all-star household, Baumbach's movie resembles Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" without the heavy whimsy.
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