The Savages
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- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Director(s)
- Tamara Jenkins
- Distributor(s)
- Fox Searchlight
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 115 min.
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Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites
A brutal encounter with mortality told with uncommon humanity, wit and humor.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental.Read the full review
Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites
Bringing a tough, astringent wit to a subject too often wrapped in the cozy blanket of sentimentality or cute humor, Tamara Jenkins takes a frank look at the indignities of aging in The Savages, a black comedy that invites viewers to laugh or at least smile ruefully at the dying of the light.Read the full review
