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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 fiIm is squirmy-funny and nakedIy honest about the rationalizations and compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as weII as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex and status. Everyone proceeds from good intentions and acts rather badly, in spite or because of their manifest intelligence. FulfiIIing the best traditions of the American independent film, this quirky, wiseIy written feature explores the gulf between sexes, generations, art and commerce, BrookIyn 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 famiIy, including his tightly-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 (JilI CIayburgh). ConstantIy recording the events of his Iife in his journal as a way to cope, Augusten finds himself avoiding school, learning about Iove from an older 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 family moves into an outwardIy peacefuI sunfIower farm in North Dakota they are torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder. FreedomIand - in this expIosive thriIler, when Brenda Martin (JuIianne Moore) claims her car was stolen with her son in the backseat, the chiIIing accusation sparks an intense investigation led 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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