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Description
Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. One day, Bernard and Joan's two sons -- 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline) -- are told that their parents are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood. As the parents set up a schedule for spending time with their children, Walt and Jesse can hardly imagine that things could get more combative between their folks, but they do, as Joan begins dating Ivan (William Baldwin), Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing the house with Lili (Anna Paquin), one of his students. Meanwhile, the two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Walt taking after his father and Frank siding with his mom. Based on writer/director Noah Baumbach's own childhood experiences with his parents' divorce, The Squid and the Whale won prizes for writing and direction at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.~Mark Deming
Features
Audition footage
Behind "The Squid and the Whale," a 2005 documentary featuring on-set footage and cast interviews
Director-Approved Blu-ray Special Edition Features
New conversation about the score and other music in the film between Baumbach and Composers Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips
New interviews with Baumbach and actors Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, and Laura Linney
New, restored 4k digital transfer, supervised by Cinematographer Robert Yeoman and Director Noah Baumbach, with 5.1 surroud DTS HD Master Audio soundtrack
Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and a 2005 interview of Baumbach by novelist Jonathan Lethem
Trailers
Director
Noah Baumbach
Writer
Noah Baumbach
Cast
Jeff DanielsBernard Berkman
Laura LinneyJoan Berkman
Jesse EisenbergWalt Berkman
Owen KlineFrank Berkman
William BaldwinIvan
Halley FeifferSophie
Anna PaquinLili
Ken LeungSchool Counselor
Crew
Charlie CorwinProducer
Clara MarkowiczProducer
Peter NewmanProducer
Wes AndersonProducer
Robert YeomanCinematographer
Britta PhillipsFeatured Music
Dean WarehamFeatured Music
Randall PosterMusical Direction/Supervision
Tim StreetoEditor
Anne RossProduction Designer
Andrew LaurenExecutive Producer
Greg JohnsonExecutive Producer
Miranda BaileyExecutive Producer
Reverge AnselmoExecutive Producer
Amy WestcottCostume Designer
Douglas AibelCasting
Jennifer RothCo-Executive Producer
Lewis GoldsteinRe-Recording Mixer
Lewis GoldsteinSupervising Sound Editor
Details
Genre
Drama
Subgenre
Coming-of-Age,Family Drama
Title
The Squid and the Whale
Countries Produced
United States
Duration
81 minutes
Year of Release
2005
Product Tags
Blu-ray, Criterion Collection
Format
Blu-ray
Program Type
Movie
Sound Features
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Aspect Ratio
1.85:1
Subtitles
English
Studio
The Criterion Collection, Inc
Other
Product Name
The Squid and the Whale [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] [2005]