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Writer (WGA):
Noah Baumbach (written by)
Release Date:
21 February 2008 (Australia)
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Tagline:
One family. Infinite degrees of separation.
Plot:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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6 nominations
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Trailer and poster for Baumbach's 'Greenberg'
(From screeninglog. 25 November 2009, 9:23 PM, PST)
Trailer - Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg'
(From Get The Big Picture. 24 November 2009, 9:32 PM, PST)
(From screeninglog. 25 November 2009, 9:23 PM, PST)
Trailer - Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg'
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Not a nice film, but more worthwhile than most of the trash at cinemas. One to make you think, perhaps.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Zane Pais | ... | Claude | |
| Susan Blackwell | ... | Woman on Train | |
| Nicole Kidman | ... | Margot | |
| Jack Black | ... | Malcolm | |
| Flora Cross | ... | Ingrid | |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Pauline | |
| Seth Barrish | ... | Toby | |
| Matthew Arkin | ... | Alan | |
| Brian Kelley | ... | Bruce | |
| Christian Hansen | ... | Fireman | |
| Michael Cullen | ... | Mr. Vogler | |
| Enid Graham | ... | Mrs. Vogler | |
| Sophie Nyweide | ... | Vogler Daughter | |
| Justin Roth | ... | Vogler Son | |
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | Dick Koosman |
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Also Known As:
Untitled Noah Baumbach Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content and language.
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Runtime:
93 min | USA:91 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R |
Canada:14A |
Ireland:16 |
UK:15 |
Argentina:13 |
Germany:12 |
Australia:M |
Netherlands:12 |
South Korea:18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Finland:K-13 |
Sweden:7 |
Portugal:M/12
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Originally titled "Nicole at the Beach", as a tribute to Eric Rohmer, the title was changed when Nicole Kidman was cast.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Malcolm has trouble recollecting the bassist for Motley Crue, and then remembers that it's Mick Mars. The bass player for Motley Crue is actually Nikki Sixx, although this mistake could have been intentional to further convey the forgetfulness.
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Quotes:
Pauline:
I was dating that guy Horace back then. Do you remember him?
Margot: Was that the guy who liked to rough you up?
Pauline: No, that was our dad.
Margot: Our dad used to strip down to his skivvies and beat us with a belt.
Malcolm: That man had a sexual screw loose.
Pauline: That's awful, that stuff that happens to kids. Malcolm was fondled by a male babysitter.
Malcolm: Just use that information however you want.
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Margot: Was that the guy who liked to rough you up?
Pauline: No, that was our dad.
Margot: Our dad used to strip down to his skivvies and beat us with a belt.
Malcolm: That man had a sexual screw loose.
Pauline: That's awful, that stuff that happens to kids. Malcolm was fondled by a male babysitter.
Malcolm: Just use that information however you want.
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References Barely Legal All Stars 1 (2004) (V)
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Dear Mary
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I assume you are normal. Whatever that is. Would you ever stop to question that?
Margot is a fish out of water. She would be 'normal' back home. Her pond is Manhattan. Intellectuals. 'Nice' people. Successful. Words of several syllables that easily slip into popular psychobabble - but in an acceptable sort of way. Social affirmation obscures our faults. The world after all is as we, and our friends, understand it to be. A self-selecting reality.
For Margot's sister Pauline, the self-selecting, self-affirming, 'normality' is different. She lives in the countryside. Fulfilment would be a down-to-earth lifestyle with someone who thinks she's great. That man in her life, played by Jack Black, is a very ordinary sort. He doesn't even have a proper job. But they seem content. They will marry under the family tree. In the garden.
As two worlds collide, flaws that could have been overlooked come nastily to the surface. Margot can only return Pauline's sisterly love in a cold, cerebral way. She becomes easy to dislike. We soon doubt her sincerity. Pauline looks more and more pathetic against her accomplished sibling. She becomes easy to feel sorry for. Blood is thicker than water. But it exerts unbearable strain.
In best scenarios, romantic comedies and feelgood movies, love always triumphs over dysfunctionality. If only life was so reliable. With the uplifting coup of family bonds in such films as Little Miss Sunshine or The Darjeeling Ltd. Those movies provided us with reassuring escapism. And I admit they were more satisfying than the rather bleak Margot at the Wedding. But it is this film that gives such niggling pause for thought.
It is easy for box office comedy to turn on family difference that ultimately heals. But it is the less than fairytale endings that we have to deal with in real life. Not funny. Maybe just a bit painful. Like estranged family. Hurts that don't heal in a neat two hours of celluloid.
Margot at the Wedding is not a great movie. Nor a comfortable one. It looks at the fragility of one's persona - or definition of normality - that we use to interact with society. With society's forgiving and less forgiving parts. Parts that are perhaps within our own families. But it does encourage you to think. And there are too few movies out just now that do that.