The Savages

A pair of siblings are forced to set aside their discomfort with one another for the sake of their father in this low-key comedy drama from writer/director Tamara Jenkins. Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright living in New York City who works a day job to support herself and can't ...more

The Savages is the stuff of familiar family dysfunction, with a triad of flustered characters at its deeply screwed up core. There's Lenny (Philip Bosco), the petulant, abusive father figure whose mental health is quickly eroding, Wendy (Laura Linney), the pill-popping would-be theater scribe, her brother Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a Bertolt Brecht scholar who can't keep his romantic and professional lives in order, and the specter of an absent mother. It has that oh-so-indie bleak cynicism ...more