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The Savages
2008-05-21 00:05:00 The Savages(View all trailers and clips)PlotAs their estranged father Lenny (Bosco) sinks into senility in an Arizona retirement village, Wendy (Linney) and Jon (Hoffman) Savage are forced to figure out how to care for the dad who never cared for them.ReviewOver the past ten years - from The Daytrippers to Little Miss Sunshine - a new sub-genre has replaced the bank-heist-gone-wrong as the set text of US ?indie? cinema. Call it The Dysfunctional Family Picaresque; those quirky coming-of-age comedies in which flawed moms, dads and kids find their life path and learn to love each other?s quirks. Tamara Jenkins kickstarted it with her 1998 directorial debut, Slums Of Beverly Hills, and during a ten-year quietus she?s evidently studied the genre?s evolution closely, and likes not what she sees. The Savages opens with a cutesy image of retirement life - a geriatric chorus line emerging from sun-dappled hedges to the strains of Peggy Lee?s I Don?t Want To Play In Your Yard - but Jenkins q...
?The Savages? Poster and Trailer With Philip Seymour Hoffman
2008-01-27 18:45:00 While "The Savages" didn't get a lot of award nominations from the major award givers (such as the Academy Awards), the critics heaped high praise on this film which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.Hoffman received most of the attention for this film and his Oscar nomination f10 Zoom(s)
Movie Reviews: The Savages
2008-01-14 17:03:00 Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney star in this drama from director Tamara Jenkins.
By: Geeks of Doom
Baby Boomers Should See The Savages
2008-01-02 22:27:00 Have you seen the movie The Savages? It’s an irreverent look at family, love and mortality through the experiences of two baby boomer children trying to find nursing home care for their estranged father who has dementia. Many of America’s 78 million aging baby boomers should see it. Check that: anyone who is aging (all of us) ...
By: Changing Aging
The Savages - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 London Film Festival By Carrie BaileyEpoch Times UK Staff Oct 21, 2007 Jon is an emotionally stunted professor. His sister Wendy is an emotional wreck and both are charged with looking after their ailing disinterested father who develops dementia. Sound appealing? The problem with this film is not so much the bleakness of the topic, it’s ...
By: Movie Doctor
The Savages movie photos
2007-10-05 06:28:00 6 The Savages movie photos added : An irreverent, hilarious and heartbreaking story revolving around a modern American family. After drifting apart emotionally and geographically over the years, two siblings Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) must band together to care for an elderly parent. The Savages (production of Fox ...
?The Savages? Star Laura Linney, Director Tamara Jenkins Coming to Chicago
2007-09-20 18:42:00 I learned on Thursday morning that actress Laura Linney and director Tamara Jenkins will be in Chicago on Oct. 18 for ?The Savages,? which will be the closing film of the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct. 17Laura LinneyPhoto courtesy of IMDbThe film, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, is described with these words:?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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney in The Savages Trailer
2007-07-13 00:58:00 Trailer for Tamara Jenkins' The Savages starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.
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