The Savages

Wendy Savage is an aspiring playwright languishing in temp jobs in New York City, perpetually dissatisfied by an affair with a married neighbour. Wendy’s brother, Jon, a theater-arts professor living in Buffalo, is working on a book on Brecht. Neither sibling is fulfilled by their pursuits, and things quickly take a turn for the worse when they are called upon to arrange care for their ailing father, Lenny. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold,Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, having to get over long-standing tensions – with each other, with Lenny and with the world at large – in order to find their dad a suitable place to live out his days.

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Script: Tamara Jenkins

Cinematography: Mott Hupfel

Editing: Brian A. Kates

Sound: Mathew Price

Music: Stephen Trask, Art Direction : Jane Ann Stewart

Actors: Laura Linney (Wendy Savage), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jon Savage), Philip Bosco (Lenny Savage), Peter Friedman (Larry), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Jimmy)

Production: Lone Star Film Group & This is That & Ad Hominem

Producers: Ted Hope, Anne Carey, Erica Westheimer

Costumes: David Robinson

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: USA

Production Year: 2007

Duration: 113

Tamara Jenkins

She was born in Philadelphia and received an M.F.A. in Filmmaking from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She made several short films, including Fugitive Love and Family Remains, which received a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance FF. She made her feature film debut with Slums of Beverly Hills, and has since directed theater for The New Group and a series of public service announcements for Amnesty International.