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List Price: $19.94 Our Price: $13.49 You Save: $6.45 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 21 March, 2006 |
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The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition) description The Squid and the Whale follows the divorce of Joan (Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me) and Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels, The Purple Rose of Cairo) as it wreaks havoc on the emotional lives of their two sons, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg, Roger Dodger) and Frank (Owen Kline, The Anniversary Party). Though there's no plot in the usual sense, the movie progresses with growing emotional force from the separation into the bitter fighting between Joan and Bernard and the hapless, floundering behavior of Walt and Frank, who act out through plagiarism, sexual acts, and drinking. Some viewers may find the ending too diffuse; others will appreciate that writer/director Noah Baumbach (Mr. Jealousy) doesn't wrap up the messiness of life in a false cinematic package. Either way, viewers will appreciate how the specificity of the personalities makes The Squid and the Whale so compelling, as Baumbach has drawn the characters with such detail, both engaging and off-putting, that they leap off the screen. Naturally, he's greatly helped by the cast: Linney, Eisenberg, Kline, and especially Daniels bite into these often unsympathetic portraits and give fearlessly honest performances, interlocked in both painful and funny ways--rarely have family dynamics been captured so vividly. If there was an ensemble Oscar, this cast would deserve it. --Bret Fetzer |
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| This is one of the most awful movies I've ever seen. The characters are self-absorbed, selfish, and unlikable. There is nothing that makes me care about them. The kids aren't particularly likable, either. With such unsympathetic characters, you don't care that the parents abuse the kids; you only ask yourself, "Why should I waste another minute on this film?" The end is ludicrous (where you find out where the title of the movie comes from), and has nothing to do with this disjointed story. Even Jeff Daniels, an excellent actor, couldn't save this flick. If you're interested in compelling drama, and what makes characters tick, see Pleasantville. | |
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