Original Title: The Savages
Year: 2007
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,1 (NEVAZUT)
Country: USA
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Director: Tamara Jenkins
Writer: Tamara Jenkins
Composer: Stephen Trask
Producer: Anthony Bregman, Jim Burke, Anne Carey, Lori Keith Douglas, Ted Hope, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Erica Westheimer, Fred Westheimer
Actors: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Harold Blankenship, Joan Jaffe, Sage Kirkpatrick, Salem Ludwig, Sandra Daley, Peter Frechette, Jennifer Lim, Kristine Nielsen, Christopher Durham, Maddie Corman, Cynthia Darlow, Carmen Roman, Nancy Lenehan, Michael Higgins, Madeline Lee, Tijuana Ricks, Margo Martindale, Erica Fae, Michael Blackson, Sidné Anderson, Patti Karr, John Bolton, Zoe Kazan, Lee R. Sellars, Marianne Weems, Tobin Tyler, Debbi Fuhrman, Lili Liu, Max Jenkins-Goetz, Bob Huff, Elaine Huff, Diane Michelle, Alyssa Waldrip
Description: Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create.
Comments: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. ------- Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create. ------- In Sun City, Arizona, the grumpy Lenny Savage has dementia and lives with his mate Doris Metzger (Rosemary Murphy). His son Jon is a professor of drama in Buffalo that is writing a book about Bertold Brecht. His daughter Wendy is a thirty-nine year-old freelancer and aspirant writer of screenplays for theater that lives in New York and has an affair with the middle-aged married man Larry. Wendy and Jon are estranged from their abusive father but when Doris dies, the siblings travel to the funeral and are surprised by her family that informs that Lenny must leave the house. Wendy and Jon bring Lenny to Buffalo and leave him in a nursing home. Along the days, they visit their father and try to improve his life. ------- Middle aged siblings Jon Savage and Wendy Savage, who live in Buffalo and New York City respectively, have been estranged from their parents for several years, who themselves are no longer together. They saw their mother as largely being absent from their lives even before this estrangement, while they accuse their father of being abusive to them when they were growing up. Although this dysfunction has negatively affected both siblings, it seems to have affected Wendy more, she, who, although armed with an MFA, does office temp work to make ends meet - among other more less than ethical means - while writing scathing autobiographical plays as therapy, those plays which have thus far been unproduced. She is in a relationship with Larry, a married older man, which keeps her from pursuing other people. And she readily lies to get what she wants, which has the end goal of making herself feel better about her less than satisfying life. Jon and Wendy learn through the grapevine that their father, Leonard Savage, has been acting out of late in an aggressive manner. Soon after, they learn that Lenny's live-in partner of twenty years, Doris Metzger, has just passed away. Jon and Wendy use the opportunity of the funeral to travel to Sun City, Arizona to check up on their father. What was supposed to be a quick overnight trip ends up being extended as they find out that Lenny is suffering from early dementia - the reason for his aggressive behavior - most-likely the result of Parkinson's. Also, they learn that they are now responsible for him as he can no longer live in Doris' house. Jon and Wendy have different opinions of what type of care is best for their father, although they have to make united decisions. Caring for and reconnecting with Lenny as well as making those important care-giving decisions in this end stage of his life take their toll on Jon and Wendy, although both siblings have to confront the goings-on in their own sad lives in the process.
Duration: 114 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\05400 - The Savages (2007)\The Savages (2007).avi
Filesize: 700 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 592x320
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Subtitles: English, Serbian