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The Steven Spielberg Rankings and ‘The Fabelmans’

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Steven Spielberg's Child of Divorce

Joanna Stern: This movie helped me, a founding member of the child of divorce club, like understand why Steven Spielberg keeps making movies about divorce. She says he pulls quite deftly 50-50 from their experience and trying to recreate what they represented to him as a child. Stern: He spent a lot of time thinking about what roles his parents' psychology played on the kind of man that he became. "I loved the fact that it was willing to be so kind of bare naked about the way that he developed as a man"

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