A conversation with director Noah Baumbach and film critic Philip Lopate
Sundance Film Festival, Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, 2005
Sundance Film Festival , Director's Award, 2005
Review
Noah Baumbach's autobiographical portrait about divorce and its reverberations through the family stars Jeff Daniels as the insufferably pretentious father, Laura Linney as the mother who finally bails out of the marriage, and Jesse Eisenberg as the eldest son. Owen Kline plays the youngest brother, who acts out with unusual expressions of bodily functions, and William Baldwin and Anna Paquin co-star. Winner of the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.