Life on Mars (song) film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", starring Bill Murray as Steve Zissou. The song is played as Murray walks stoned to the bow of his boat in solitude as a party continues below deck. "Life on Mars?" is included in the 2005 film "Loverboy", first being played on the radio during a conversation between the 10-year-old Emily and Mrs. Harker, and later being sung a cappella by 10-year-old Emily. "Life on Mars?" is included on the soundtrack to the 2006 film "Factory Girl". "Life on Mars?" is used in the 2012 British film "Hunky Dory", sung by the character
Noah Baumbach directed "Mr. Jealousy", a film about a young writer so jealous about his girlfriend that he sneaks into the group therapy sessions of her ex-boyfriend to discover what kind of relationship they had. He then co-wrote (under the name Jesse Carter) and directed (under the name Ernie Fusco) the New York-set comedy of manners "Highball". He co-wrote "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004) with Wes Anderson. His 2005 film "The Squid and the Whale" was a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama about his childhood in Brooklyn and the effect of his parents' divorce on the family in the mid-1980s. The film stars