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  2. Nov 23, 2022 · The Fabelmans: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle. Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

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    • Steven Spielberg
    • 2022-11-23
    • What’s The True Story Behind Spielberg’s Parents’ Divorce?
    • Did Spielberg Really Discover His Mother’s Affair Through Movie Footage?
    • Did Spielberg’s Family Own A Pet Monkey?
    • Was Spielberg Bullied as A Child For Being Jewish?
    • Is The Encounter Between Sammy and John Ford Based on A True Story?

    The central conflict in “The Fabelmans” is the divorce of Sammy’s parents and how it converges with his nascent filmmaking career. Spielberg’s parents, Leah Adler and Arnold Spielberg, divorced when he was 19. In the 2013 documentary “Spielberg,” he and his sisters recall how the marriage started to break down after they moved from Arizona to Calif...

    One of the pivotal sequences in “The Fabelmans” takes place when Sammy is editing together footage he shot of a family camping trip. It turns out that his camera has inadvertently captured evidence that Mitzi has been having an affair with Bennie, his father’s best friend. Sammy shows his mother the footage but keeps it a secret from the rest of th...

    They sure did. At a pet shop in Northern California, Leah Adler laid eyes on a monkey that was apparently dying from depression. “So I come home driving my Jeep with a big cage in the back and a monkey in the cage,” Adler recalled in the “Spielberg” documentary, adding that the kids “freaked out.” (Arnold Spielberg said he liked the monkey.) Adler ...

    When the Fabelmans move from Arizona to California, Mitzi and Burt’s impending divorce isn’t the only source of Sammy’s unhappiness. A group of classmates immediately start bullying him, calling him “Bagelman” and defacing his locker with antisemitic slurs. As Spielberg recalls in the 2013 documentary, his Orthodox Jewish upbringing clashed with th...

    Yep. In a 2011 interview for “Cowboys vs. Aliens,” which Spielberg executive produced, he told the story of the time he met legendary director John Ford as a young man looking to break into the business. While visiting some cousins in California, he met with a television producer who got him a few minutes with “Jack”. The details of that encounter ...

  3. Nov 23, 2022 · Steven Spielbergs new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love with movies after being spellbound by a...

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  4. Sep 11, 2022 · Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. By Kyle Buchanan. Sept. 11, 2022. Steven Spielbergs “ The Fabelmans ” is the movie every fall film festival was dying to have, but only Toronto got it....

  5. Sep 20, 2022 · By Isabella Soares. Published Sep 20, 2022. Find out who will play the renowned director and his family on the big screen. After years of consolidating his filmmaking imprint in Hollywood, renowned...

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  6. The Fabelmans is a 2022 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tony Kushner. The film is a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on Spielberg's adolescence and first years as a filmmaker.

  7. Nov 16, 2022 · November 16, 2022 7:00 AM EST. This story contains spoilers for The Fabelmans. When Steven Spielberg was a kid growing up in 1950s Arizona, watching westerns on his family’s 20-inch...