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The Savages
Directed by
Tamara Jenkins
2008
1h 54m
R
Comedy
,
Drama
7.1
90%
75%
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A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Cast of The Savages
Laura Linney
Wendy Savage
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jon Savage
Philip Bosco
Lenny Savage
Peter Friedman
Larry
David Zayas
Eduardo
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Jimmy
Cara Seymour
Kasia
Tonye Patano
Ms. Robinson
Guy Boyd
Bill Lachman
Debra Monk
Nancy Lachman
Rosemary Murphy
Doris Metzger
Hal Blankenship
Burt
Joan Jaffe
Lizzie
Salem Ludwig
Mr. Sperry
Peter Frechette
Matt
Maddie Corman
Annie
Margo Martindale
Roz
Michael Blackson
Howard
Sidné Anderson
Simone
Sandra Daley
Attendant
Sage Kirkpatrick
Real Estate Agent
Jennifer Lim
Manicurist #1
Zoe Kazan
Student
The Savages Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The Savages isn't cheery holiday fare, ... and yet Jenkins makes her film unexpectedly uplifting, in a small-scale, real-life kind of way.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Tamara Jenkins has made a movie about something that lots of people are going through but nobody wants to deal with, not even in life, much less in entertainment. And she's done it fearlessly, with the right mix of humor and horror.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The Savages not only boasts Oscar-worthy performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as a self-absorbed brother and sister, its attention to detail makes it sweetly funny and genuine.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Jenkins' brushstrokes of her characters are too exacting to move us more than a lifelike painting of a basket of fruit. We can be awed at the techniques, but walk away empty.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The humor in The Savages is born out of the performances by Linney and Hoffman, two actors who can convey as much about their characters as the ones around them with a seemingly effortless, instinctual ability.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Both Linney and Hoffman are so specific in creating these characters that we see them as people, not elements in a plot.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Its astringent humor is not funny ha-ha, it's funny-ouch.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Smartly written and beautifully played.
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Assured and sharp, The Savages is only Jenkins' second feature-length film. You'd never know it.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Jenkins' superlative work proves her first film was no fluke; let's hope it doesn't take another nine years to hear from her again.
MSNBC
Alonso Duralde
While writer-director Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) lets things get a little mushy towards the end, the film brilliantly portrays a difficult family moment made even more complicated by her characters' overweening narcissism.
The New Republic
Christopher Orr
Linney and Hoffman are both terrific, and Jenkins's script is pointed and perceptive, but the film's arc is a little flat.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
It's billed as a comedy. You may or may not find much to laugh at.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Powerful, painful and yet unerringly funny as it points out our emotional and physical vulnerabilities, this is a film that finds the humor in tragedy while keeping both omnipresent.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
One of those genre-defying hybrids that are sometimes called dramedies, The Savages tiptoes along a particularly fraught emotional tightrope, balancing observant humor and deep sadness with uncommon grace.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The film stuck, and even now almost a month later I can still savor and relish so many of the picture's minute delicacies as if I had just witnessed them for the very first time.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Although the story may sound as dismal as Buffalo's weather, it's surprisingly funny. Not gag funny, but observation funny -- the absurdities of real life, seen and presented.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
With the help of acting giants, [director Tamara] Jenkins turns The Savages into a twisted, bittersweet pleasure.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
I wouldn't call the film inspirational - it is too well observed to succumb to easy sentiment - but its realism is patiently engaging and subtly insinuating
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