THE SAVAGES (M)

Director:
Tamara Jenkins

Starring:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Laura Linney

Plot Summary:
When an estranged and senile father starts failing, his son and daughter are suddenly burdened with the heavy chore of care-giving for a man who once neglected and abused them.

Genre:
Drama

Duration:
1 Hour 53 Minutes

Origin:
U.S.A.

Language:
English

Reviews:
Boston Globe, Ty Burr
"Smartly written and beautifully played..."

Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
"A movie like this depends on nuance and performance if it is not to descend entirely into soap opera."

Chicago Tribune, Geoff Berkshire
"...some of the best writing and acting on screen all year..."

Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental."

Los Angeles Times
"A brutal encounter with mortality told with uncommon humanity, wit and humor."

Time
"I wouldn't call the film inspirational -- it is too well observed to succumb to easy sentiment -- but its realism is patiently engaging and subtly insinuating. And Linney and Hoffman are extraordinary."

Salon.com
"What makes the movie memorable is the precision of its tone, its finely calibrated combination of bitterness and warmth. Of course the acting is tremendous, and you'd expect nothing less."

The New York Times
"Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages, is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls."

Variety
"Jenkins brings a rigor, intelligence and eye for the slightly absurd to the proceedings that is instantly disarming."

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