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| Release Date: |
November 28, 2007 (Limited) |
| On DVD: |
April 22, 2008 |
| Genre: |
Comedy, Drama |
| Running Time: |
113 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some sexuality and language. |
| Director: |
Tamara Jenkins |
| Writer: |
Tamara Jenkins |
| Cast: |
Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco |
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy (Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney) is a self medicating struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an obsessive compulsive college professor writing obscure books on even more obscure subjects in Read more
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Movie Review
Grade: B
Every year, I try to see the best films within a reasonable amount of time so that I can factor them in come end-of-year Top Ten lists - and so that I'm not the guy left out of some conversation about that "great movie" everyone had seen last weekend. Every year, though, a couple films slip through the cracks, and unfortunately the studios wait several months past award season to release them on DVD. Such is the case with The Savages, a movie that garnered yet another Oscar nomination for Laura Linney. It's not a great movie, but it is a very good one.
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