The Squid and the Whale

His script for The Squid and the Whale began as a memoir about living through his parents’ divorce. On subsequent drafts, it was transformed into fiction, but heavy elements of autobiography remained, such as his parents’ awkward custody arrangement. Baumbach even used his parents’ book collections as props…

…in Noah Baumbach’s critically acclaimed The Squid and the Whale (2005), portraying an awkward teen son of divorcing parents (played by Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney). Eisenberg appeared in several movies in 2007, notably The Hunting Party, a satire about journalists mistaken for CIA operatives, and the coming-of-age drama The…

In the quirky drama The Squid and the Whale (2005), she starred as a promising writer dealing with a messy divorce in 1980s Brooklyn.

…Hour (2002), and Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005). Paquin also appeared in the horror film Scream 4 (2011), Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011), and The Parting Glass (2018). In 2019 she portrayed the daughter of a hit man (played by Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman