The Squid and the Whale: In nineteen eighty-six, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the
prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "philistines" -
people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the
boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors.
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