The Squid and the Whale



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DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2006-03-21

Genre: Drama

Director: Noah Baumbach

Stars: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, Anna Paquin, William Baldwin, Adam Rose, Alexandra Daddario, David Benger, Henry Glovinsky, Eli Gelb, Peggy Gormley, Peter Newman, Greta Kline, Michael Countryman

MPAA Rating: R

Synopsis: Bernard Berkman, the patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family, claims to have been a famous novelist but is now reduced to teaching. His wife Joan discovers a literary talent of her own, and it breaks up the family, leaving the two teenage sons, Walt, 16, and Frank, 12, divided between their parents. The wife starts an affair with her younger son's tennis coach, while the husband starts sleeping with a student whom his elder son is courting.     Source: RottenTomatoes.com


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