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The Squid and the Whale full movie is released on Dec 16, 2005. Watch The Squid and the Whale online - the English Comedy movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $11,098,131. The Squid and the Whale is directed by Noah Baumbach and created by Noah Baumbach with Owen Kline and Jeff Daniels. The Squid and the Whale is available online on AMC+ Amazon Channel and Starz Roku Premium Channel.

In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "philistines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.

As know as:

Historias de familia, Hayim beyn ha'shourot, Kalmaar ja vaal, イカとクジラ, Китът и сепията

Release Date:

Oct 05, 2005

Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 21, 2006

Countries:

United States

Language:

English

Stream Service:

IDP Distribution

Production Companies:

Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures International, Destination Films

Gross worldwide:

$11,098,131

Taglines:

Joint Custody Blows.

Reviews

Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
A wry exercise in acute observation and emotional distancing, Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale represents what's best in autobiographical filmmaking.
by rottentomatoes, Jan 05, 2006
Kimberley Jones
Austin Chronicle
It's the sort of film that's bound to be labeled modest, but it packs a hefty emotional wallop.
by rottentomatoes, Dec 06, 2005
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The Squid and the Whale is essentially about how we grow up by absorbing what is useful in our parents and forgiving what is not.
by rottentomatoes, Dec 06, 2005

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