Just about every movie by Noah Baumbach (Kicking And Screaming, Frances Ha) is a study of prickly personalities. But with The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), which arrives in select theaters and on Netflix tomorrow, the New York writer-director creates a whole family tree of neurotics, then populates it with such major stars as Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and a maybe never-better Adam Sandler. On this episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk about what makes Baumbach’s newest, warmest symphony of dysfunction special.
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