The director’s latest film is a deeply personal ode to family and making movies.
He would know; he once put his head in lions' mouths for a living.
Unlike Boris, Bennie is not actually an uncle.

Paul Dano and Michelle Williams in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans.'.Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
But there are also pretty girls, and a new kind of unraveling at home to distract him.