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The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project)share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir.

“A book that anyone will love . . . You can enjoy it even if you have no idea who the Duplass brothers are.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers have made their mark in the world of independent film and television on the strength of their quirky and empathetic approach to storytelling. Now, for the first time, Mark and Jay take readers on a tour of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir told in essays that share the secrets of their success, the joys and frustrations of intimate collaboration, and the lessons they’ve learned the hard way.

From a childhood spent wielding an oversized home video camera in the suburbs of New Orleans to their shared years at the University of Texas in early-nineties Austin, and from the breakthrough short they made on a three-dollar budget to the night their feature film Baghead became the center of a Sundance bidding war, Mark and Jay tell the story of a bond that’s resilient, affectionate, mutually empowering, and only mildly dysfunctional. They are brutally honest about how their closeness sabotaged their youthful romantic relationships, about the jealousy each felt when the other stole the spotlight as an actor (Mark in The League, Jay in Transparent), and about the challenges they faced on the set of their HBO series Togetherness—namely, too much togetherness.

But Like Brothers is also a surprisingly practical road map to a rewarding creative partnership. Rather than split all their responsibilities fifty-fifty, the brothers learned to capitalize on each other’s strengths. They’re not afraid to call each other out, because they’re also not afraid to compromise. Most relationships aren’t—and frankly shouldn’t be—as intense as Mark and Jay’s, but their brand of trust, validation, and healthy disagreement has taken them far.

Part coming-of-age memoir, part underdog story, and part insider account of succeeding in Hollywood on their own terms, Like Brothers is as openhearted and lovably offbeat as Mark and Jay themselves.

“Wright. Ringling. Jonas. I’m sure you could name a bunch of famous brother teams. They’re all garbage compared to Mark and Jay. I can’t wait for you to read this book.”—from the foreword by Mindy Kaling

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“Wright. Ringling. Jonas. I’m sure you could name a bunch of famous brother teams. They’re all garbage compared to Mark and Jay. I can’t wait for you to read this book.”—from the foreword by Mindy Kaling

“A likable memoir of how Jay and Mark Duplass blazed their idiosyncratic trail, and an inspiring how-to guide.”—The New York Times Book Review

“The book is a collection of diverse pieces that fit together to reveal the puzzle of [the Duplass brothers’] lives. There’s part of it that’s very practical. . . . But another big piece of the book is the chapters that explore their unusually close relationship. . . . Both parts of Like Brothers make for a fascinating read.”—Orange County Register

“Like Brothers is more encompassing than most moviemaking memoirs. . . . [It] isn’t just worthwhile for fans of the Duplass Brothers; this autobiography is a fascinating look at the art of sneaking into the industry through the back door . . . [and] just how they pulled it off.”—Moviemaker

“A frank, intimate, hilarious account of their creative success and personal bond.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Mark and Jay Duplass are not just brothers, kind of like their book is not just a memoir. . . . The book playfully darts between essays, pop-culture tributes and self-help tips. . . . What sets Like Brothers apart . . . is the uncanny bond between its authors. . . . Like Brothers is ultimately a fascinating window into the creative process, showing the complexities that come with being so inextricably linked.”—USA Today

“Equal parts touching memoir and rallying cry, the book is a candid and often unapologetically emotional survival guide for aspiring artists.”—Vulture

“Like Brothers is . . . a surprisingly practical road map to a rewarding creative partnership. . . . Like Brothers is as openhearted and lovably offbeat as Mark and Jay themselves.”—Broadway World

“As creative partners, we sure learned a thing or two from Mark and Jay Duplass’s journey through the Hollywood machine. Like Brothers is an essential guide for making space for yourself in a world that doesn’t always encourage individuality and innovation. As useful to an aspiring filmmaker as it is to a pair of siblings wondering ‘How do we turn our connection into something great?,’ this book will be essential on your shelf.”—Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner

“The Duplass Brothers have a genius for conveying deep feeling without ever straying into sentimentality. Here they capture the often wonderful and occasionally terrible business of collaborating professionally with someone you love.”—John Green and Hank Green

“As a writing team and directing team, we love seeing two people who are more intelligent and articulate than us explore the dynamic that we don’t have the depth or self-reflectiveness to explore ourselves!”—Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

“In my next life I’d like to come back as a Duplass Brother. But until then I’ll just enjoy their hilarious, insightful book.”—Judd Apatow

About the Author

Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass are the critically acclaimed filmmakers behind The Puffy Chair, Baghead, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. For HBO, they wrote and directed Togetherness, produced the animated series Animals, and created the anthology series Room 104. Their producer credits also include the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country and the feature films Safety Not Guaranteed, The Skeleton Twins, and Tangerine. As an actor, Mark has appeared on the hit comedy The League and in such films as Your Sister’s Sister, The One I Love, and Blue Jay, while Jay has a leading role on the Golden Globe–winning series Transparent and has appeared in such films as Landline, Beatriz at Dinner, and Outside In. Both brothers had recurring roles on The Mindy Project.

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I.

It is dark.

It is late.

It is 1984.

We are lying next to each other in one of our twin beds. But, predictably, we are not asleep. We are talking about life. And our dreams. And the great mystery of cable television.

“Jay?”

“Yes, Mark?”

(Silence. Mark has always loved the dramatic silence. I am older by four years and should find this annoying, but I love this about him.)

“When is it coming?”

“Soon.”

“How soon?”

(I take a moment to mitigate expectations and not get my seven--year--old baby brother too excited.)

“Dad said by next week it’ll be here.”

“What does it look like?”

(I actually do not know, but I have a few theories.)

“I’m not sure.”

“Is it, like ... a big cable?”

“I think so?”

“Do they just drag it down the street and plug it into the house?”

“I don’t think that’s how it works.”

“How does it work?”

“I don’t know.”

(Mark thinks on this. Wide--eyed. Young mind grappling with what it all means.)

“What is going to happen to us, Jay?”

“Nothing crazy. I don’t think. Or maybe everything.”

“I’m so excited.”

“Yeah, me too.”

(Pause.)

“Jay?”

“Yes, Mark.”

“I have something to confess.”

“What?”

(Again, the dramatic pause.)

“I don’t know what cable is.”

(I try extremely hard not to laugh. I am careful never to condescend, because he is smart and very sensitive. Still, I am an older brother and can’t help myself. ... )

“If you don’t know what it is, then why are you so excited about it?”

“I don’t know. I just ... I heard you talking about it to your friends. And ... I can tell how excited you are about it. So ... I got excited about it.”

(Not an extremely eloquent response, but quite prophetic in many ways as to the nature of our unique brotherly bond and complex relationship to come.)

“It’s going to be bringing a lot of movies, and TV shows, and a bunch of new channels into the neighborhood.”

“Do you think it’s gonna change everything?”

“I don’t know.”

(Pause.)

“Jay?”

“Yes, Mark.”

“When we grow up do you want to get houses next to each other?”

“Definitely.”

(Mark considers this.)

“Do you think ... we could share the same cable? Or do we have to get different cables for each house?”

“I could probably figure out how to share one.”

(Mark believes me. He believes that I am very good at this kind of thing. Good at everything, actually, if you asked Mark in 1984. This was a huge part of building my confidence.)

“What happens if we wanna watch different movies but we share the same cable?”

“I think we’d have to watch the same movie.”

“So what do we do if we ever want to watch a different movie at the same time?”

(We both consider this question. It’s a troublesome thought. Might there come a time when our interests, and therefore our lives, diverge? The question hangs over us like a fat black cloud for a moment. But then we smile. Because this is a ridiculous thought. We will always want to watch the same movie. We will always live right next to each other. We will always lie in bed at night and talk about our lives and our dreams.)

Two weeks later, cable arrives at our home.

And everything changes.

The Woog

Do you feel weird inside? We do. All the time. Sometimes we call it depression. Sometimes we call it anxiety. Sometimes we just call it “The Woog.” As in “I’m feelin’ woogie today.” At the core of this weird feeling is a sense that there are, at minimum, two people inside of us at war. And we don’t know how to make them get along.

“I’m gonna stay up all night and write and put on my weird hat and two different socks and smoke weed and eat cereal and maybe pizza too and try to crack a new kind of story and make something fascinating and different and I don’t care if I never make any money because I’m an artist who is trying to represent the underrepresented and create empathy for all. ...”

And.

“I probably should go back to business school. And learn how to buy and sell companies and make millions and millions and maybe billions and use that money to start charities. This is the better way to live. For others. Not for myself and for my artistic vision. That’s ... that’s kind of a load of selfish horseshit in the end. ...”

And then some other voices start to pop up. And it’s hard to tell if they are subsets of these two main people or if they are actually secondary characters that also live inside of us.

“I just want to live a quiet, simple life with my family. I want to stay home and be there at all times with my kids. Read to them. Cook for and with them. Play board games. Just be a good parent and husband and, in the end, just kinda be ...

“TEACHERS! That’s what the world needs now. Leadership for young kids who don’t have positive role models. Give myself and everything I can to them. An innocent child needs a thoughtful role model, and even though I’m not perfect, I am likely willing to give more than what I hear the average burned--out public high school teacher can give, so I should get my teacher’s license and ...

“The world is hard enough. Who am I to think I can help and save anyone? I’m just an average--intelligence person trying to get by. It’s enough just to make my own way in the world. I should just go inside myself. Stop talking and start listening. Get small and find a small sliver of happiness in the world and hang on to it for dear ...”

You get the picture.

Do you ever feel this way? Hopefully not. And if you don’t, feel free to skip to the next chapter.

But if you do ... we want to say sorry. Sorry you feel conflicted like we do. That you are uncertain as to what the right path is in life. Sorry that you want so badly to be useful but also happy. To be inspired but also at peace. To make change but also just get by.

But we also want to say ... CONGRATULATIONS! Because, in our opinion, you may just be part of a dying breed. There will be fewer and fewer of you, and because of that and so much more, you are truly special.

Here’s our theory:

When our parents got married, it was a time when people mostly married young. And in many cases, they married without fully vetting whether they would be a good matrimonial fit. Let’s face it, they often got married because their religion said “no sex before marriage” and they really just wanted to start humping and not go to hell for it. They got married because they were sexually attracted to each other. And that attraction was often a result of the “opposites attract” theory. So when we were made, we were made from very different individuals who came together mostly because they liked the way the other smelled, as opposed to any long--lasting traits that made for a sustainable partnership. Hence, the two different people inside of us.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; First Edition (May 8, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101967714
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101967713
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.74 x 1.02 x 8.55 inches

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Mark Duplass is an award-winning actor, filmmaker and producer. He and his brother Jay first gained recognition in the early 2000’s for writing, directing and producing several acclaimed independent and studio films, including “The Puffy Chair,” "Cyrus," and "Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” The brothers have an ongoing a multi-film deal with Netflix for their film production. On the television side, Mark and Jay have created two critically acclaimed television series for HBO: "Togetherness" (in which Mark also starred) and "Room 104." Recently, the brothers produced docuseries "Wild Wild Country," which premiered on Netflix.
As an actor, Mark has starred in films including: Alexander Lehmann's romantic drama "Blue Jay," Lynn Shelton's Gotham-award winning "Your Sister's Sister," Charlie McDowell's sci-fi romance "The One I Love," Patrick Brice's horror-comedy "Creep," (along with its follow-up, "Creep 2"), Colin Trevorrow's Independent Spirit award-winning "Safety Not Guaranteed," and Katherine Bigelow's Oscar-winning "Zero Dark Thirty."
From 2009 to 2015, Mark was a series regular on the hit FX comedy series "The League." Other television credits include: National Geographic's "Manhunt" and Hulu's "The Mindy Project." Mark has a recurring role in the upcoming season of Amazon's "Goliath," which is slated to premiere in 2018.
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Jay Duplass was first recognized in the early 2000’s for writing, directing and producing several award winning independent and studio films with his brother Mark, such as THE PUFFY CHAIR, CYRUS, and JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. In 2014, Jay and Mark created the critically acclaimed television series TOGETHERNESS, eventually inking a television deal with HBO where they’ve since produced ANIMALS and ROOM 104. The brothers also have an ongoing a multi-film deal with Netflix for their film production. Jay began acting in 2012, when Jill Soloway cast him as series regular Josh Pfefferman in her Amazon show TRANSPARENT. He also appears regularly in Hulu’s THE MINDY PROJECT, TBS’ SEARCH PARTY and in films such as BEATRIZ AT DINNER, LANDLINE and two upcoming 2018 releases, OUTSIDE IN and PROSPECT.
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Two Good Friends Talking Shop, Life, and Love - Sweetness Distilled

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018

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I never read these things. The cover alone shouts heed me for I am a delight. But the Duplass Brothers are natural storytellers, on the written page as well, not to mention independent / indywood film royalty of Swanberg and Gerwig proportions (huh?) -- what I did not expect is to like them so damned much. They are people. At points it reminded me of a good interview with Peter Farelly in which the man simply holds forth. It feels like I am being spoken to by two buddies who have acquired wisdom. That they would sleep in the same bed as children and tell each other they love each other before lights out reminds me of my sweet children, and their advice could prove invaluable to young filmmakers obsessed with pricey cities and overly large sets. BTW - I LOVE Hoop Dreams and Rocky and watched all those replays of "Children of a Lesser God," "Ordinary People," and "Kramer vs. Kramer" and all those "too early" dramas just like these guys, when HBO just played in the backdrop - not to say I didn't love "Flash Gordon" with the Queen soundtrack as well ... they don't mention it, but they should, what an adorable mess.

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An inspiring guide for the Independent Film Maker. Don't just dream. Make it HAPPEN through action.

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021

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I bought this book because I do like most of the content the Duplass Brothers have created and I was wondering how they got started. I was stationed with the military in Louisiana so it was interesting to me and easy to visualize how Mark and Jay Duplass grew up. They were so supportive and loving to each other and their dreams. Of course they had some obstacles along the way. But they truly just "made the content themselves" and are one of the most successful American Film and Independent Film and Television Production Company founders of the Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996. I enjoyed the humor, determination, brotherly love and honesty of this book.

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Max

How to produce Indie films by the extremely close Duplass brothers.

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020

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Really nice peek Into the Hollywood movie machine. Jay and Mark were brutally honest about their relationships and what it takes to produce independent films within the machine.

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Amazon Fan!

One of the best books about filmmaking since Rebel Without a Crew

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018

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This was a funny, fast read. Even if you aren't a filmmaker or screenwriter, you'll enjoy reading about two close brothers working together. If you are a screenwriter or filmmaker, you'll love their chapters about how their career unfolded. A lot of the film stuff has been already said at panels in SXSW: "The Calvary Is Not Coming" and in essays and interviews. Google them, read the articles, find the short film "This is John" (it's on YouTube) and then watch The Puffy Chair if you haven't yet. One of the best books about film since Robert Rodriguez' Rebel Without a Crew but/and it's not only a film book -- some chapters are just about their lives, their families, their dreams, silly things. They spend quite a while trying to whittle down their top 10 films. (Spoiler alert -- my only complaint about the book is Joe vs. the Volcano) but apart from that, these are wise and funny guys and you should read their book, see their movies and drink their Kool-Aid.

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Liza Miggo

Every aspiring filmmaker should read

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2021

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As a young film student who has always been a fan of the duplass brothers, I thought that they MUST have had a leg up; had connections, been wealthy, etc— like most in the film industry today. But no. They worked for it and they teach you that it’s okay to mess up and that it’s not just a natural born talent or god given gift like Spielberg or something. Or the coen brothers. But seriously, this book motivated the hell out of me.

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I always liked the Duplass brothers but now they are my friends

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018

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I always liked the Duplass brothers but now they are my friends. This book already has me feeling less alone in this world and that is actually kind of strange given that the entire idea of this book is that they were given a soulmate by birth so I probably should feel a complete utter sense of sadness that my two (very opposite, married young) parentals didn’t give me a kickass sister that I would share a twin bed with. It’s a gentle reminder to us downtrodden creatives, feeling the woog, that we are in a weird way part of their kin. We’ve been Duplassed and now I know why I always kinda liked these guys. I’m only on page 40 so if shit takes a turn I’ll come back and update but for now.. this is what I needed!

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Entertaining book, but never quite grabbed me. For sure an interesting read though

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Nick M.

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Reviewed in Canada on August 2, 2019

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Often times, us dreamers & creative types can find ourselves in ruts. These mundane demands of life can take their toll and then a book comes along that refreshes you. This book felt like it shook the cobwebs of the dreams I've shelved.

To start, the Duplass bros are legit good dudes. Their whole book is littered with ugly truths that people rarely vocalized with an earnest desire of betterment. Their relationship is sweet & weird & inspiring & unique... And that plays into the stories they've told. As a wannabe filmmaker, their retelling of making short films, heartaches with productions and core values to sticking to story & performance really resonated with the things I personally love about movie making.

It's a funny, poignant, weird read, but it's so honest & raw & inspiring... Plus the way it's formatted make it super easy to read. Some chapters are 2 pages on weird life moments and others are longer biographical chapters of their movie-making process.

Don't read this if you don't want to feel hopeful that you too can pursue your dreams with some hard work & gumption.

Shaun Hughes

A great read for everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2018

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As a filmmaker I was interested in this book to hear more about the Duplass Brothers' strategy and approach to making their films. It delivered in that respect but was also a great read for the anecdotes, relating to film and otherwise, and the real personal approach. A great study in what it's like to collaborate and doesn't shy away from uncomfortable topics. Some of the stories I had heard in various interviews over the years and a lot of the strategy talk is covered in the keynote speech Mark gave at SxSW (you'll find it online), but this expands upon that and I'm glad to have it in written form as well as the video. Also that's just a small portion of the book. There really is something for everyone in there.

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Book came bent and damaged

Reviewed in Australia on September 5, 2021

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Alexander T.

Incredibly honest and entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2021

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A gem of a book for all folks working in the entertainment, particularly film industry. Detailed, funny, personal account of the brothers journey. You don’t have to like their films to enjoy this book and enrich your underrating of how to ‘make’ it in indie/ Hollywood scene. It’s especially interesting because they are a duo, like the Coens, and the dynamic is always changing.

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Impressive!

Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2020

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I loved this book, and I love their films and interviews. They are impressive all around!

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