'No one wants to read someone's kid's "thing". It's a sucky scenario': Owen Kline on his debut hit, Funny Pages

It took years for Kevin Kline's son - who acted in The Squid and the Whale - to get his first film as a director off the ground, nurturing it 'like a sick baby under a rock'. Was it all worth it? The first that cinema audiences knew of Owen Kline was his wilting, damp-eyed performance as a 12-year-old in Noah Baumbach's spiky divorce comedy The Squid and the Whale. Kline played a Brooklyn boy who responds to his parents' separation by wiping semen on the books in the school library, creating wha...