Adult siblings Jon and Wendy Savage are forced to come crawling out of their stunted, self-centered lives to care for their father, Lenny, who has succumbed to a new depth of Parkinson's dementia, in this surprising and "beautifully nuanced tragicomedy." (NY Times) "While The Savages is a story about decrepitude and death, and chronicles a family whose wounds run too deep, it never has that claustrophobic, trapped-in-a-nightmare feeling of some dysfunctional family flicks. For one thing, it's pretty damn funny, which means it nails the pretensions of its middle-aged, middle-class protagonists without making them seem like pathological monsters or insects nailed to a board...What makes the movie memorable is the precision of its tone, its finely calibrated combination of bitterness and warmth. Of course the acting is tremendous, [including an Oscar-nominated turn by Laura Linney] and you'd expect nothing less." (Salon.com) Winner of an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. more at foxsearchlight.com/thesavages 35mm
2007, color, 1 hour 53 minutes, USA