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- 81 Minutes
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated: R
- Format: Widescreen, Special Edition
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- Directed by Noah Baumbach
- Written by Noah Baumbach
- Starring Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Laura Linney, Owen Kline
In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager whose writer-parents are divorcing. The father (Daniels) and mother (Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. The film is squirmy-funny and nakedly honest about the rationalizations and compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as well as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex and status. In detailing bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn, Baumbach is spot on. Everyone proceeds from good intentions and acts rather badly, in spite or because of their manifest intelligence. Fulfilling the best traditions of the American independent film, this quirky, wisely written feature explores the gulf between sexes, generations, art and commerce, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
"Acutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry." -- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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- Profile of director Noah Baumbach
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