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The Squid and the Whale
film by Baumbach [2005]
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- In Noah Baumbach: Film career
His script for The Squid and the Whale began as a memoir about living through his parents’ divorce. On subsequent drafts, it was transformed into fiction, but heavy elements of autobiography remained, such as his parents’ awkward custody arrangement. Baumbach even used his parents’ book collections as props…
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Linney
- In Laura Linney
In the quirky drama The Squid and the Whale (2005), she starred as a promising writer dealing with a messy divorce in 1980s Brooklyn.
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Paquin
- In Anna Paquin
…Hour (2002), and Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005). Paquin also appeared in the horror film Scream 4 (2011), Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011), and The Parting Glass (2018). In 2019 she portrayed the daughter of a hit man (played by Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
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