The Squid and the Whale
Why this pick
Like Margot at the Wedding, it turns family fracture into painfully funny, sharply observed emotional combat, with adults’ vanity and cruelty filtered through intimate domestic discomfort.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Like Margot at the Wedding, it turns family fracture into painfully funny, sharply observed emotional combat, with adults’ vanity and cruelty filtered through intimate domestic discomfort.
Why this pick
Its caustic, literary-minded portrait of an aggressively self-absorbed protagonist shares Margot’s appetite for bracing dialogue, emotional abrasiveness, and relationships damaged by unexamined ego.
Why this pick
A pair of estranged siblings forced into proximity creates the same uneasy blend of mordant humor, old resentments, and fleeting tenderness beneath familial hostility.
Why this pick
Another wedding becomes a pressure cooker for sibling resentment and family history, but its intimate handheld style and raw performances make every awkward encounter feel immediate.
Why this pick
A suburban family crisis unfolds through escalating, talk-heavy encounters, balancing humiliating comic chaos with the volatile alliances and buried grievances of close relatives.
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01 / THE STORY
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is marrying less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Pauline

Jim

Dick Koosman

Maisy Koosman
Alan
Toby

Margot

Malcolm