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The Savages Movie Synopsis & Plot

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 Buffalo who still can’t commit to his girlfriend after four years even though her cooking brings him tears of joy. Then, out of the blue, comes the call that changes everything – the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Tony Award® winner Philip Bosco), has lost his marbles. And there is no one to help him but his kids. Now, as they put the middle of their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, soon rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and the ultimate sibling rivalry battle over how to handle their father’s final days, they are forced to face the past and finally start to realize what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.

MOVIE REVIEW

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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