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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-civilised, half-savage fahsion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. The film is squirmy-funny and nakedly honest about the rationalisations 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 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.

Director:

Noah Baumbach [2],

Starring:

Jeff Daniels [33], Anna Paquin [26], Laura Linney [35], William Baldwin [21], Jesse Eisenberg [5], Owen Kline [1], Haley Feiffer [1],

Screen Formats:

Widescreen 1.85:1

Subtitles:

Dutch , English , Hindi , Spanish

Language and Sound:

English 5.1 Dolby Digital
Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital

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