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Article: Margot at the Wedding
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
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- December 19, 2007
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Margot at the Wedding
Complex Electras
THE CHARACTERS in Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding are a second-generation Freudian train wreck, with the third generation racing down the track, probably unable to stop in time. They say everything that's on their minds, especially if it might hurt. They take compliments as passive-aggressive insults. They do what they feel like doing and then laugh and scream about it later (as in: later that day).
Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a teacher who lives in the upstate New York home that her parents once owned, is marrying Malcolm (Jack Black), a prodigal musician/artist who freely admits that "I haven't had that thing yet where you realize you're ...