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The Savages is a 2007 American black comedy - drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco (in his final film before his death in 2018). It had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2007.
Jan 17, 2008 · The Savages: Directed by Tamara Jenkins. With Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman. A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Wendy Savage (Laura Linney), a struggling playwright, has little to do with her brother, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a college professor and author. However, the siblings must find a...
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In Sun City, Arizona, the grumpy Lenny Savage has dementia and lives with his mate Doris Metzger (Rosemary Murphy). His son Jon is a professor of drama in Buffalo that is writing a book about Bertold Brecht.
Dec 20, 2007 · The writing on the wall. 114 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2007. Roger Ebert. December 20, 2007. 4 min read. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as siblings with a problem. “The Savages” seems a curious movie to be opening four days before Christmas, but maybe not: Christmas Day itself is said to be the top moviegoing day of the year, as families ...
Nov 28, 2007 · In their dyspeptic, quarrelsome fashion, the Savages are blissfully neurotic, often very funny variations on J. M. Barrie’s fictional offspring, John and Wendy Darling, those charmed, magical...
Nov 28, 2007 · The Savages is an irreverent look at family, love and mortality as seen through the lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering and challenging experiences: when adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care for an estranged elderly parent.