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The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition)

Jesse Eisenberg (Actor), Laura Linney (Actor), Noah Baumbach (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
IMDb7.3/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Color, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Special Edition, Dubbed, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
Contributor Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, Wes Anderson, Jesse Eisenberg, Charlie Corwin, Ambush Entertainment; American Empirical Pictures; Andrew Lauren Productions; Original Media; Peter, Peter Newman, Noah Baumbach, Clara Markowicz See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 21 minutes
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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 (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura 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.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ COLD13494D
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Noah Baumbach
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Special Edition, Dubbed, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 21 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jesse Eisenberg, Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Clara Markowicz, Charlie Corwin, Wes Anderson, Peter Newman
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000CS464G
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 326 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Lizzy Lez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Character Development
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017
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I watched this movie because I am a fan of Jesse Eisenberg and of Laura Linney. I'd been searching for Eisenberg movies I had not seen when I found this one. This was a very intense and painful movie about the effects of parental attitudes and behaviors on a teenager and a child just entering adolescence. Jeff Daniels did a great job as a supremely arrogant and condescending college professor with little regard for women. His character's interactions with Eisenberg's character were meaningful and loaded with opportunities for growth in good and bad directions. The younger child in the movie was clearly suffering a great deal, and his character played to Laura Linney's character's strengths. It was an excellent, although not a feel-good, movie. I'd definitely recommend it if you like a lot of character development and not a lot of plot, as I do. If you like action and a complicated plot, this is not the movie for you.
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JboneCA
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Pleasantly surprised!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014
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This movie is simply fantastic. Critics agree, awards committees agreed, and I agree so what more do you need? Well, if you needed more convincing, here we go.

Let's start with the understanding that the premise itself is very tired. It's common in literature and film alike. I fear this is probably the new normal in film: a common story told from a slightly off-beat perspective with some particulars added for individuality. This movie's strengths are two-fold: First, the actors are perfect for the roles they occupy and second, the details make it a believable.

Jeff Daniels is the selfish, insufferable, failing author who grows resentful of his blossoming and slightly neurotic wife, Laura Linney. Together they are the parents of Jesse Eisenberg, a teenager who emulates and admires his father while attempting to deal with romance, and Owen Kline, a conflicted, neglected, and complex younger brother. Anna Paquin and Halley Feiffer fill in the roles of romantic interests for Daniels and Eisenberg, and also add their own special excitement.

This cast is unexpectedly amazing. The dialog and chemistry between the characters is remarkable and the peculiarities and mannerisms exhibited by each are spot-on for the characters they are trying to capture. With such complex characters, I was pleasantly surprised by the performances of Daniels and Eisenberg, who I feel were risky castings. Kline was also remarkably convincing for such an odd character.

In addition to the superb acting, the details that are sprinkled throughout the movie add a bit of realism to the whole thing. The nuances of the dialog, the oddities of Kline, the neuroticism of Eisenberg, the family's preoccupation with their cat, and the desperation of Daniels to retain his parking spot are a few examples that help to flesh out and make the story a bit more special than the run-of-the-mill family turmoil plot.

So, why not five stars? A few subplots remain unresolved. As this is also a new normal in Hollywood, I shouldn't be surprised. But with such lovely characters that deserved proper conclusion, I feel this was a major miss by production. I actually wanted to know what happens to them.

Great film!
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Jeff Hutchison
5.0 out of 5 stars Did anyone else see Asperger's Syndrome?
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2020
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So many examples with Bernard and even Walt... I'm no psychologist, but that's what it looked like to me. If you know what high functioning autism looks like you start to see it when it presents itself. Many of the scenes and sequences that seem pointless or gratuitous build the case for it.... it isn't just arrogance, perversion, ineptitude, shallowness, brilliance, devotion, and genuine caring (it's in there, rewatch it)... there's something at the root of it all.
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directordavid
3.0 out of 5 stars it went nowhere
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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slow. with a Netflix non-ending.
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errin spelling
5.0 out of 5 stars Eisenberg is the most rational person in the movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2019
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And he is the child,so, you know something is wrong there. This is why people should have to take classes, before they can become parents. I'm not joking. No one had a Brooklyn accent, but they lived in Brooklyn. These people are not happy . It was a good movie and we enjoyed it...
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OnceMore
4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty dialogs, very strong ensemble acting
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2012
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This film wastes no time at hitting you with gritty dialogs that will wring strong emotions out of you. Within a few minutes into the opening scene -- a family of four playing tennis, father (Bernard) and oldest son (Walt) vs mother (Joan) and youngest son (Frank) -- you can immediately pick up undercurrents of hostilities between the minor-aged boys' parents.

You soon learn that the parents -- a once-promising novelist turned college writing teacher Bernard, and a newly successful writer Joan -- are separating, and have decided to have joint custody of the boys (and the family cat), who will live alternately with each of them an equal amount of time during the week according to some painstakingly exact formula.

This news devastates the boys, of course, and because they are each close to a different parent, they act out when they're with the "other" parent.

That one of the parents has personal issues -- but is clueless about them -- and cannot stop badmouthing the other parent doesn't help at all.

Both boys develop problems at school. One of them, when asked by the school psychologist to recall a moment when he was happy, has to think hard and long. But when he does, the "happy" memory becomes a clarifying moment for him about how he truly feels about his parents, and moves him to change the way he interacts with them. This "happy" memory provides the basis for the film's title.

I thought this film presents a brutally honest look at troubled relationships and how children's confused loyalty to one parent can cause them to lash out against the other, while idealizing the one they're loyal to. The film does come to a somewhat satisfying ending when one of the boys realizes he has misjudged his parents and moves to change the way he interacts with them.

I thought Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline all delivered very strong ensemble acting.
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GeorGina
5.0 out of 5 stars Wes Anderson is amazing
Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2019
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I have a collection of Wes Anderson films so I had to gwt this one as well
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Chris
3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable.
Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2016
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This movie is dark and gritty. It's an indie film so lots of dialogue. Very tough topics but an enjoyable watch.
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withglittereyes
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2014
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Not for everyone!
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amadoku.co.jp
4.0 out of 5 stars ふつうの話
Reviewed in Japan on February 21, 2015
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とりたててびっくりするようなことはなく、ごくありふれた家庭でのできごと。でも当事者はこれが世界のすべてなのです。表題は内容にあまり関係ないように思えますが、重要なアイテムです。
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Ray La
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2015
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It's OK!
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