Mr. Fox I wrote with Noah Baumbach in England at Gipsy House, where Roald Dahl lived.

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Yet Baumbach and Stiller had the persistence and the imagination to find a soulful side to Greenberg and the courage not to turn him into a goofy, lovable curmudgeon.

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