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The Squid and the Whale
| Rating: | R (for strong sexual content, graphic dialogue and language) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | October 5, 2005 |
| Running time: | 81 minutes |
| Cast: | Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer |
| Director: | Noah Baumbach |
| Producer: | Wes Anderson, Peter Newman, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz |
| Writer: | Noah Baumbach |
| Distributor: | Samuel Goldwyn Films |
Description: 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.
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