The Squid And The Whale [2005]

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Starring: ~ Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney Jesse Eisenberg Owen Kline William Baldwin
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Region: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed PAL

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Sales Rank: 5336

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Customer Reviews:

I was hesitant about watching this (13 March 2008)
as the reviews had been excellent and I thought I would be disappointed. I was not. It is very well acted and shows the sadness of divorce on the whole family but there is a little bit of humour to keep you going rather than devle you into the depths of misery.

I laughed non-stop (11 February 2008)
The previous review sums up this film very well. I had never heard this film advertised etc and randomly came across it at a friends house. What luck!!

So called "comedies" never make me laugh - This film however, is MY idea of a funny movie. It is up there with Sex, Lies and Videotapes and As Good As It Gets in terms of making me laugh. Brilliant cast (especially the older son! ... and Jeff Daniels is hilarious as the self important intellectual dad).

One brilliant and understated scene follows the next and the dialogue is a string of pearls!

A thoroughly satisfying movie on all levels! Please watch it!

Not Light Entertainment (01 February 2008)
I found this film quite deep and at points, quite uncomfortable watching. I felt it painted a real picture of what the two boys went through during their parents divorce from their own perspective more than focusing on the parent's own issues with one another. Both boys seem seriously affected by their parents separation and living different lives in different homes. You really feel for them as they go through the pains of finding out for themselves what to believe in and how to deal with their situation and get some perspective despite their opinionated, narrow minded Father. A good, interesting film. Very different and not what you'd call light entertainment.

amazing..... (27 January 2008)
i bought this film the other week (in morrisons for £2.99)and i watched it on my own, the film was moving, although i failed to see the humor, im sure if i watched it again i would see it, ad prehaps understand more of the metaphors involved. i am used to films where they spell out the problems and solve them. so i was shocked to find that alot of he issues addressed such as the disturding behaviour of the youngest son was not solved or even propperly discused, but then it deemed on me that the film emulates real life exactly.
for someone who as ever been in a situation like this is may ring to close to home, but its well worth the watch

Painful, sad and funny (06 January 2008)
I went to school in Oxford in the 1980s. Highly-cultured Brooklyn intellectual families seem to have a lot in common with North Oxford dons, so the film did feel familiar. From the opening scene on the tennis court, the misery of being in a dysfunctional family is subtly and slowly revealed.

The way kids idolise their parents is very convincing, and the director shows how the opinions and moral judgement of the parents is reflected in the attitudes of the children.

This film hurts. I actually found the ending very satisfying. The son gets an insight into the true nature of his father, and in fact that is the moment he crosses into being an adult himself.