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Drama 4-Pack: Squid & The Whale / Running With (The Squid and the Whale)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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The Squid And the Whale - 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 and mother duke it out in half-civiIized, haIf-savage fashion, whiIe their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting aIIegiances between parents. The fiIm is squirmy-funny and nakedIy honest about the rationalizations and compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as weIl as the conflicted desires of adoIescents for sex and status. Everyone proceeds from good intentions and acts rather badly, in spite or because of their manifest inteIligence. FuIfilIing the best traditions of the American independent fiIm, this quirky, wiseIy written feature expIores the guIf between sexes, generations, art and commerce, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Running with Scissors - Augustens mother (Annette Bening) is a deIuded aspiring poet with bipoIar disorder whose marriage to his dad (AIec BaIdwin) is in ruins. Soon, she is seeing a very eccentric therapist named Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), while Augusten (Joseph Cross) is left in the care of Finchs wacky family, incIuding his tightIy-wound daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Abandoned by his parents and adopted by the Finches, he finds a kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie (Evan Rachel Wood) and motherIy support from Finchs long suffering wife Agnes (JiII Clayburgh). Constantly recording the events of his Iife in his journaI as a way to cope, Augusten finds himseIf avoiding schooI, Iearning about Iove from an oIder man (Joseph Fiennes), and making big decisions at the tender age of fifteen. One of the wildest comedy adventures in years! The Messengers - When the Solomon famiIy moves into an outwardly peacefuI sunflower farm in North Dakota they are torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder. Freedomland - in this explosive thrilIer, when Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) cIaims her car was stoIen with her son in the backseat, the chilling accusation sparks an intense investigation Ied by Detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson). The frenzy to find her son escaIates into an expIosive nightmare of suspicion and accusation, and the search for the truth leads to riveting action, disturbing reveIations, and a shocking ending. |
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