Filmmaker Noah Baumbach's heavily autobiographical film about brothers coping with their parents' messy divorce derives a certain cachet from the fact that Baumbach's own parents are literary novelist Jonathan Baumbach and former
Village Voice film critic Georgia Brown. Sixteen-year-old Walt Berkman (Jesse Eisenberg) and his 12-year-old brother, Frank (Owen Kline), are shattered when their parents, fledgling writer Joan (Laura Linney) and novelist-turned-creative writing professor Bernard (Jeff Daniels), whose literary star is on the wane, announce that they're divorcing after nearly 20 years of marriage. The morose Walt, whose status as a budding intellectual...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
88 mins