It took me awhile to get past writer-director Noah Baumbach’s Wes Anderson affectations (Baumbach worked with Anderson on the script for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), but beneath them is a layer of hurt that feels authentic. Like Anderson’s
The Royal Tenenbaums, this droll drama follows a peculiar, intellectual New York family (headed by Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels) and the disastrous, trickle-down effect of the parents’ impending divorce on their two sons. It’s pretty funny in its own squirmy, sad way.
