Word: owens
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...parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...
Breeding plays a part. Owen, 14, is the son of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. Serendipity helps too. Write-director Noah Baumbach had shown his script to friends Kline and Cates. When he was having trouble casting the role of Frank, his wife Jennifer said, "We need someone like Owen, someone who is soulful and funny." Cates and Kline let their son audition and, when he was chosen, were on the set with him. The "tough" scenes (spilling his seed in school, trying on his first condom) were the easiest, Baumbach says: "It actually was just faking things...
...tribute to young Kline's talent is that viewers of the film assume that he must be a bit...troubled. With a fearful sympathy, they ask Baumbach, "How is Owen?" His answer: "Owen couldn't be a better kid. He is so mature, so sane. I love...
...pursuing an acting career, but he's not exactly idle. He makes movies with his friends, does graphic novels, designs his own clothes and plays drums. "The last time I saw him," Baumbach says, "he was playing Bob Dylan on the ukulele." If folks come up and ask Owen Kline about poor Frank, he could sing, "No, no, no, it ain't me, babe...
...great to see a lifetime of craft and care in Tommy Lee Jones' face; and to find, in Owen Kline, now 14, the boldest understanding of a weird, endearing...