Movie · Drama · Comedy

A pair of brothers living in Brooklyn are caught in the middle of, and deeply affected by, the divorce of their erudite parents, Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and Joan Berkman (Laura Linney). Older sibling Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) sides with dad and acts out at school, while younger brother Frank (Owen Kline) quietly backs up mom. The household tension rises further when Joan's writing career takes off and surpasses the failed ambitions of her professor ex-husband.

2011 · 1h 20m
Director Noah Baumbach

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The Squid and the Whale

Drama

A pair of brothers living in Brooklyn are caught in the middle of, and deeply affected by, the divorce of their erudite parents, Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and Joan Berkman (Laura Linney). Older sibling Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) sides with dad and acts out at school, while younger brother Frank (Owen Kline) quietly backs up mom. The household tension rises further when Joan's writing career takes off and surpasses the failed ambitions of her professor ex-husband.

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Average 7.9
Reviews 150
Fresh 137
Rotten 13

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Studio
Ambush Entertainment; American Empirical Pictures; Andrew Lauren Productions; Original Media; Peter Newman Productions; Redeemable Features
Released
2011
Run Time
1 hr 20 min
Rated
16+
Region of Origin
United States
© 2005 Squid And Whale, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), Russian (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), Arabic , Czech , Dutch , French (France) , German (Germany) , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Turkish

Accessibility

Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.