At the beginning of this whole thing, if I could have looked and said, okay, well, you'll be here when you're 48.

It was kind of exactly what I would have hoped for and wanted.

I'm Sean Fennesee, editor and chief of the ringer, and here's the big picture.

Few filmmakers capture the anxiety of aging and family life better than no Bombak.

In his movies like The Squid and the Whale, kicking and screaming, and Francis Ha among others,

Bombak really gets to the heart of things that we have difficulty saying to each other.

His new movie The Myrwood Stories, New and Selected, is no different.

It stars Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller as half-brothers, and Dustin Hoffman is their passive-aggressively

dominiering artist father. The movie's streaming now on Netflix and I can't recommend it highly enough.

It's really one of my favorite movies of the year. It's surprisingly funny and

unusually deep about how we deal with our parents. So Noah and I talked about the making of The Myrwood

Stories, his long career, and the art of a great movie start performance. Without further ado,

here's my conversation with Noah Bombak.

Joined by one of my favorite filmmakers, Noah Bombak. Noah, thank you for coming in today.

Thanks. So Noah, you have a new film, but when I was watching it, I thought of your first film,

and there's a particular reason why. In the movie Dustin Hoffman's character, and Adam Sandler's

Bond, while watching The Metz, reminded me a lot of kicking and screaming in Elliot Gould's character,

and Josh Hamilton's character, bonding over the Knicks. I'm curious because of that,

what kind of brought you back to fathers and sons, and where this movie really started?

Yeah, that's interesting. I hadn't thought about that and to actually take that further,

and my failure of imagination, it was the Knicks and the first drafts of The Myrwood Script.

I realized that because it begins with Adam's character's daughter going to college,

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