The Squid and the Whale

If you have children and are contemplating filing for, or already are in the midst of a divorce, you may want to see a movie that hopefully may make you a better parent during this difficult time in your life: The Squid and the Whale [1 hr. 21 min.; NYC Release Date: 10/05/2005]


Synopsis [prepared by MovieTickets.com]:

Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1986. When Walt Berkman, an impressionable 16-year-old, passes off the Pink Floyd song Hey You as his original work and performs it at a high school talent show, he's perfectly content with his rationale. I felt I could have written it so the fact that it was already written was kind of a technicality. At the same time, his 12-year-old brother Frank drinks beer and wonders openly about his mother's sex life. Both are simply reacting to the fall-out from the bomb dropped on their comfortable family life when their parents, Bernard--a once promising author and now middle-aged academic and Joan--a burgeoning writer with a book deal--announce that they are splitting up. The familiar, steady foundation is shaken. Walt and Frank are relegated to alternating weekends and a jumbled calendar of Mom or Dad nights. The kids are left to grapple with the confusing and conflicted feelings that arise from the sudden collapse of their parents' marriage.


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