The Squid and the Whale Synopsis:
Writer-director Noah Baumbach earned the 2005 Best Dramatic Directing Award as well as the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this years Sundance Film Festival for his heartfeld film about a family splintered by divorce. Anchored by an uncompromising performance by Jeff Daniels as the family patriarch, THE SQUİD AND THE WHALE also stars Laure Linney, Jesse Elsenberg and Owen Kline.
The film captures with extraordinary immediacy the inners workings of the Berkman family in 1986 Brooklyn. Bernard (Jeff Daniles), an academic and author, and his restless wife Joan (Laura Linney), an up-and-coming writer, have given up on their marriage. Their two sons Walt (Jesse Eisenberg), 16, and Frank (Owen Kline), 12, are left to grapple with their confusing and conficted feelings.
The experience is a tender, funny and ultimately moving coming-of-age for Walt and a tortuously premature one for Frank. The emotional tensions and strains that emerge during this difficult period for the Berkmans are given a remarkably subtle and nuanced portrayal as a family in transition learns to redefine itself.
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