Synopsis

Siblings Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) Savage are abruptly forced to care for their estranged, abusive father, Lenny (Phillip Bosco).

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Hmmm. The only way I can swallow The Squid And The Whale whole is to consider it a black comedy - squid-ink black. If the thought of a young kid swearing, drinking beer, and masturbating in a library strikes your funny bone, this film is for you.

The film expertly skewers a particular character type: Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels), is an intellectual writer - smart, well-read, contemplative - but a total asshole.

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Kinsey is a calculatingly unsexy movie about sex, which makes sense as Kinsey the scientist approached the subject from the unemotional, unjudgemental viewpoint of a researcher. It’s a biopic along the lines of Ray, The Aviator, or Tucker, with some important differences.

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