Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Academy Award® nominated The Squid and the Whale, is a daringly funny and bracingly honest exploration of the tender, absurd and sometimes excruciating relationship between siblings and the fallout for those in their wake: children, husbands, lovers.
Margot Zeller (Academy Award® winner NICOLE KIDMAN), a savagely bright, razor-tongued short-story writer who creates chaos wherever she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free-spirited, unassuming sister Pauline (Golden Globe® nominee JENNIFER JASON LEIGH).
Margot, with her all-too-rapidly maturing son Claude (newcomer ZANE PAIS) in tow, arrives with the gale force of a hurricane. From the minute she meets Pauline's fiancé the unemployed artist Malcolm (JACK BLACK) Margot starts to plant seeds of doubt about the union.
As the wedding approaches, one complication crashes into the next: vengeful neighbors, a beloved tree in the backyard and Margot's own marital turmoil. The two sisters, find themselves at the precipice of an unexpected transformation ultimately revealing that even when your family is about to implode . . . the one thing you can cling to for solace and comfort is your imploding family.
Baumbach in his wry, unique vision lays bare an aspect of human comedy in all its confounding sustaining essence.
2 min 30 sec
Views
24,168
Posted On
December 03, 2007
Noah Baumbach
Writer
Noah Baumbach
Studio
Paramount Vantage
Release
November 16, 2007
Nicole Kidman
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jack Black
John Turturro
Ciarán Hinds
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