Posted June 11, 200619 yr http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Squid_and_the_whale.jpg this is a great quirk fest starring Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feifferand Anna Paquin (below) and directed by Noah Baumbach who co-wrote the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Roguex3.jpg its about a boy called Walt whose incredibly clever parents are breaking up and divorcing in the mid 1980s and the effect that it has on him and his younger brother. this younger brother Frank gets a bit messed up by the separation and spends the film drinking beer, spreading his spunk around school and playing ping-pong with his dad [Jeff Daniels]. His mother [Laura Linney], on the other hand, after a number of affairs starts to see Frank's tennis teacher, a cool dude who frendly with both parties. During the course of the film Walt passes of a Pink Floyd record as his own composition, gets shoved from parents house to parents house and gets involved with a girl called Sophie, who he starts seeing. However he also has feelings for Anna Paquin's character, Lili, a literary student of his dad's who writes angry vaginal monolouges and who ends up coming to live at his dad's new house in New York when shes without a place to live. causing much sexual tention between her, him and his bearded dad. all in all if you like Rushmore and other quirkfest like that. one to definately get on Dvd if you cant see it at the flicks. Quote: Sophie: Yeah. I mean, it's gross when he turns into the bug, but I love how matter of fact everything is. Walt Berkman: Yeah, it's very Kafkaesque. Sophie: [she looks at him oddly. She laughs] Cause it's written by Franz Kafka. Walt Berkman: Right. I mean, clearly.
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