I loved Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale", a tragi-comic story about a family breaking apart, and how both parents and both sons try to cope, try to pick sides and try to go on with their lives. It's very funny, very sad and very twisted - all at the same time. Laura Linney, one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood, is fabulous in it (despite never wearing make up!)
Now it was time for a second of my laminated top 5 actresses to star in a Baumbach movie, namely Nicole Kidman. The film is every bit as twisted, funny, sad and nonsensical as the Squid, and once again portrays two families in the full-blown process of disintegration and reconciliation. And Nicole is wonderful in every sense of the word.
Grade: 4/5
Better than: Fried Green Tomatoes
As good as: The Squid and the Whale
Not (quite) as good as: Juno
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