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Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1986. When Walt Berkman, an impressionable 16-year-old, passes off the Pink Floyd song "Hey You" as his original work and performs it at a high school talent show, he's perfectly content with his rationale. "I felt I could have written it so the fact that it was already written was kind of a technicality." At the same time, his 12-year-old brother Frank drinks beer and wonders... See Full Description
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Comedy, Drama and Teen |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 28 min. |
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| Release Date: |
October 5th, 2005 (NY) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for strong sexual content, graphic dialogue and language. |
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| Distributors: |
Samuel Goldwyn Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI)
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$7,362,100 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
A-
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
"Excruciatingly funny, sometimes just excruciating this brilliant, unsparing look at a family's meltdown is one of the best pictures of the year." more...
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A |
Boston Globe, Ty Burr
"...all the performances are exquisitely life-size..." more...
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A- |
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
"...essentially about how we grow up by absorbing what is useful in our parents and forgiving what is not." more...
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A- |
Chicago Tribune, Allison Benedikt
"Steering clear of phony melodrama and indie pretense, Baumbach captures a crisis in one family's life..." more...
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A |
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