The Savages

M (Moderate themes, infrequent moderate coarse langauge)



The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives.

Wendy is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbour. Jon is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage, is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help.

Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and most surprisingly, each other are really about.



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The Savages

Rating		Moderate themes, infrequent moderate coarse langauge
Release Date		Thursday, 24 July 2008
Length		1hr 54min
Main Cast		Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, David Zayas
Movie Director		Tamara Jenkins
Distributor		Roadshow
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