Synopsis
Greenberg follows Roger Greenberg, a fortysomething New Yorker recovering from a mental breakdown, who house-sits his brother's Los Angeles home and slowly develops a complicated relationship with his brother's assistant, Florence. The film is a quiet, introspective character study exploring regret, missed opportunities, and the difficulty of human connection. Director Noah Baumbach crafts an uncomfortably honest portrait of a man struggling to reconcile who he is with who he once hoped to become.
Did You Know?
- Ben Stiller reportedly stayed in character between takes on set.
- Director Noah Baumbach based Greenberg partly on himself.
- Greta Gerwig co-wrote her own character's dialogue with Baumbach.
- The film was shot entirely on location in Los Angeles.
- It marked Greta Gerwig's breakthrough into mainstream Hollywood films.
Iconic Quotes
- I'm trying to do nothing for a while.
- Youth is wasted on the young.
- I don't want to be the guy who complains about everything.
- Somewhere along the way we lost the ability to just be.
- I'm forty. I'm not old, but I'm not young either.
