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White Noise Plot Summary
White Noise is a 2022 absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, adapted from the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo. It is Baumbach's first directed feature not based on a story of his own. The film stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle. Set in the 1980s, it follows the life of a niche academic and his family as they go through trials and tribulations, beginning with an environmental disaster near their home.
● Quick takeaway
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a…
