the squid and the whale
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367089/
o i dunno.
well first thing is that jeff daniels is great in this film, and his performance (and the writing) managed to creep me out in a rather deep way (must've been the beard and the academic-speak). the cast and writing are excellent, the film kind of icky in its close-up view of divorce and its impact on the two sons. (there's a family. i hate plot summaries.) the music became irritating after a while, particularly the insistence on running the tangerine dream music from "risky business" over and over and over.
we get it, noah.
definitely worth an hour and a half of squirming...
beware, however, of the crap ending, the sort of thing that makes you want to throw things at the screen and say bad words loudly.
fucking cheesedog, for example.
even at 2 am.