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The Squid and the Whale
Cast
Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline View AllCrew
Noah Baumbach (Screenplay), Noah Baumbach (Director) View All
Release: Oct. 5th, 2005
Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes
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Frightened Inmate No. 2
he visually establishes the central conflict in the very first scene, mom and frank on one side of the court against dad and walt on the other in a competitive game of tennis, and the interplay in this scene sets up all the character dynamics we'll see play out throughout the film.
Thief
The story is set primarily from the perspective of Walt and seems to ask a question that, as the son of divorced parents, I know I consciously or unconsciously asked myself: How can I move on after my parents' divorce and become my own self.
Gideon58
It's Brooklyn 1986 where we are introduced to Bernard and Joan Berkman, a college professor and writer and his wife, also a writer, who are the parents of moody high schooler Walt and the hypersensitive pre-teen Frank.
