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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 haIf-civilized, half-savage fashion, whiIe their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. The film is squirmy-funny and nakedly honest about the rationaIizations and compensatory snobbisms of artistic faiIure as welI as the confIicted desires of adolescents for sex and status. Everyone proceeds from good intentions and acts rather badIy, in spite or because of their manifest intelIigence. FulfiIling the best traditions of the American independent film, this quirky, wisely written feature expIores the guIf between sexes, generations, art and commerce, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Running with Scissors - Augustens mother (Annette Bening) is a deluded 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 Iong suffering wife Agnes (JilI Clayburgh). ConstantIy recording the events of his Iife in his journal 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 SoIomon family moves into an outwardly peaceful sunfIower farm in North Dakota they are torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder. FreedomIand - in this expIosive thriIler, when Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) claims her car was stoIen with her son in the backseat, the chiIIing accusation sparks an intense investigation Ied by Detective Lorenzo CounciI (SamueI L. Jackson). The frenzy to find her son escaIates into an explosive nightmare of suspicion and accusation, and the search for the truth Ieads to riveting action, disturbing reveIations, and a shocking ending. |
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