“The Squid and the Whale” (2005) presents a straightforward, unusual, and funny depiction of a family’s experience with divorce and its effects, set in Brooklyn during 1986. Jeff Daniels portrays the father, a literary professor and writer whose career is declining, while Laura Linney plays the mother, an aspiring author who seems unable to resist infidelity despite her kindheartedness. Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline…