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The Savages (2007)
A Fox Searchlight Pictures Release
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Year of U.S. Release: 2007

Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour.
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Screenwriter(s): Tamara Jenkins
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
U.S. Release Date: November 28, 2007 (Limited)
DVD Release Date: April 22, 2008
Rated Restricted for some sexuality and language.
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A sister (Linney) and brother (Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

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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 neighbor. 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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