| I've been a Jeff Daniels fan for a long
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| | unit where the little Frank starts
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| time.This is yet another great Jeff
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| | drinking beer when he is home alone and
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| Daniels movie based on a very strong
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| | displays sex-related anomalies at school
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| script by Noah Baumbach who also directed
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| | and home. Walt, on the other hand, takes
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| this family drama. Bernie Berkman
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| | a different route to his neurosis and
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| (Daniels) is an English professor married
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| | tries plagiarism to score a quick success
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| to another writer Joan (delivered with
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| | at his high school's talent
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| great texture by Laura Linney). They
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| | contest.Bernie himself loses his rudder
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| have two sons Walt (Chicken) (Jesse
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| | as well and vacillates between his desire
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| Eisenberg) and Frank (Pinkie) Berkman
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| | to keep away from Joan, on the one hand,
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| (Owen Kline) who go through their own
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| | and his jealousy with her literary
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| breakdown episodes when they hear that
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| | success and boyfriends on the other. He
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| their mom and dad are separating.The
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| | also starts an affair with a female
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| opening tennis scene in which the four
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| | student of his who rents a room at his
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| are playing a nasty game of doubles
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| | new house and flirts with his son as
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| (Bernie keeps hitting Joan with stiff
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| | well.There is no quick and neat solution
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| volleys) is a good metaphor for where
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| | to this modern drama set in Brooklyn in
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| their relationship is headed. On the one
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| | the 80s. There is an attempt at
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| side is Bernie and Walt, and on the
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| | reconciliation but no one knows how to
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| other, Joan and Frank.Nobody seems to be
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| | get the toothpaste back into the tube
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| blameless but Joan probably contributed
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| | again. Thus it is very appropriate that
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| more to the breakup than anybody else
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| | the film ends with Walt's visit to the
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| with her illicit love affair with a
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| | museum of natural history where there is
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| neighbor. During their separation she
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| | an immense replica of a whale battling
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| beds her son's tennis coach (a perfectly
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| | with a giant squid (and thus the film's
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| cast happy-go-lucky Bill Baldwin). Soon
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| | title).
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| we have a seriously malfunctioning family
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