The Savages

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Awards

Academy Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Leading Actress

Academy Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Golden Globes 2008 - Nominated - Best Actor

Independent Spirit Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Cinematography

Academy Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Leading Actress

Academy Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Golden Globes 2008 - Nominated - Best Actor

Independent Spirit Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Cinematography

Independent Spirit Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best DIrector

Satellite Awards 2007 - Nominated - Best Actress

WGA Awards 2008 - Nominated - Best Original Screenplay

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The Savages

Director:
Tamara Jenkins
R, 113 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy is a self-medicating struggling East Village playwright, a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon 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.

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Details

Runtime:
113 min.

Genres:
Comedy
Drama

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Plot Summary

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy is a self-medicating struggling East Village playwright, a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon 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, 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.

 

 

 

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Directed by
Tamara Jenkins

Produced by
Anne Carey
Ted Hope
Erica Westheimer

Writing credits
Tamara Jenkins

Cast

Laura Linney
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Bosco

 

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