In pure 'me' fashion, I will let you all know what has diverted my attention from you happy readers! But in the meantime...my pickings movie-wise for this week. To be totally honest, there was only one movie that I thought was highly recommended..and that is..
The Squid and the Whale - starring Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, William Baldwin, Alexandra Daddario, Eli Gelb, Henry Glovinsky, Anna Paquin, Adam Rose and Benjamin Smolen.
Set in the mid-1980s in Brooklyn, New York..Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels) claims to have been a famous novelist, although is now reduced to teaching. Wife to Bernard, Joan Berkman (Laura Linney), discovers she too has a literary talent..which ends up breaking up the family. This leaves teenage sons Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Kline) to choose which parent to side with. And if all of this wasn't enough, to add to the complication...Joan starts an affair with Frank's tennis coach, whilst Bernard starts sleeping with a student, who Walt is courting at the moment.
Jeff Daniels gives his best performance yet in this film! Prepare to have your heart broken and mended in the space of a couple of hours!
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