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Plot:
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.
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 (Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney) is a struggling
East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying
for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married
neighbor. Jon (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman)
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 (Tony
Award® winner Philip Bosco), 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.
Featuring nuanced performances from an extraordinary cast,
THE SAVAGES marks the return of writer and director Tamara
Jenkins who won acclaim for the humor and humanity of her
previous film, SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS. The film stars Laura
Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman,
Gbenga Akinnagbe and Cara Seymour.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Co:
Lone Star Film Group
This Is That (Prod.)
In Association With
Ad Hominem Enterprises
Cooper's Town Productions
Release Date:
November 28, 2007 (LA, NY; Other cities to follow)
RELATED LINKS__________
Wikipedia - Movie Info
en.wikipedia.org
Misc Movie News
www.foxsearchlight.com
Theater Info - Arclight Cinemas (LA)
www.arclightcinemas.com
Theater Info - Landmark Theaters
www.landmarktheaters.com
Theater Info - Laemmle (LA)
www.laemmle.com
Theater Info - Angelika Film Center (NY, TX)
www.angelikafilmcenter.com
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