The Squid and the Whale (2005)

81 min · Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film

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Directors

Noah Baumbach

Cast

Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin

The story

In 1986, Bernard Berkman -- an arrogant, twice-divorced, failing novelist -- lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his third wife, Joan, and their two sons, sixteen-year-old Walt, and twelve-year-old Frank. Bernard's career is in jeopardy due to declining sales, and he is struggling to find a new agent. Meanwhile, Joan has begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, creating tension between them.

Catalogue themes and tags

1980s, Bestseller, Broken Family, Brooklyn, Childhood Memory, Cutting the Cord, Distrust, Divorced Parents, Ehefrau, Ehepaar, Estrangement, Ex-Husband, Ex-Wife, Familie, Familienstreit, Family History, Gescheiterte Beziehung, Geschwister, Human Weakness, Husband Wife Relationship, Jealousy, Living Together, Man-Woman-Relationship, Marriage, Marriage Crisis, Mother Son Relationship, Neidische, Neurosis, Neurotic, Parents Kids Relationship, Psyche, Relation, Relationship Problems, Scheidung, Sex ratio, Writer's Block, erfolgreich, strange Family, vater-sohn, Drama, Family Drama, Coming of age, Comedy

Genres

Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film

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