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Jan 17, 2008 · Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman star as siblings who face the challenges of caring for their ailing father with dementia. The film explores the complex and humorous dynamics of family relationships, aging, and death with honesty and sensitivity.
- (38K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Tamara Jenkins
- 2008-01-17
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.
- $10.6 million
- Stephen Trask
- $8 million
Wendy Savage (Laura Linney), a struggling playwright, has little to do with her brother, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a college professor and author.
- (5K)
- Tamara Jenkins
- R
- Laura Linney
Dec 20, 2007 · A film about siblings who take care of their father in a nursing home, confronting their own issues and memories. The Savages is a drama that explores the challenges and scars of growing up, aging and death, with nuance and humor.
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.
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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.
