Be thankful that you were not a part of Noah Baumbach's nuclear family. As he reveals in his semiautobiographical "The Squid and the Whale," the filmmaker has a nasty ability to pin down the vanity, selfishness and petulance that people rarely see in themselves, and he isn't shy about showing the devastating effect those qualities have on family members. An alternately bitter and (wincingly) funny account of divorce in mid-'80s Brooklyn, "Squid" centers on a pair of mismatched intellectuals and the two boys unlucky enough to be their sons. Read the full review

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Samuel Goldwyn Films

'The Squid and the Whale'

Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Anna Paquin
Run time: 88 minutes
Release date: Oct. 5, 2005
Rating: R for strong sexual content, graphic dialogue and language.
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