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A sister (Linney) and brother (Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. Read more
| Starring | Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman |
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| Director | Tamara Jenkins |
| Genres | Drama |
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A sister (Linney) and brother (Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
| Starring | Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano |
|---|---|
| Director | Tamara Jenkins |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | Production year: 2007 To Rent: DVD: 26 May 2008 |
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Subtle & credible
Considering the subject matter being dementia of an abusive, estranged, elderly parent & his self absorbed dysfunctional adult son & daughter, I found ... read more »
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If you want to slit your wrists.......
I actually really like both lead actors in this but it is an utterly depressing film for a very American audience!
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What to do with the olds
This movie broaches the question of what to do with the parent who is no longer capable of looking after themselves i.e. what home to put them in. As a western ... read more »
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Great film, well worth a watch.
Brother and sister, Jon and Wendy Savage, are brought together, both physically and emotionally, to care for their father Lenny, who suffers from dementia.
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It's a funny thing, the movies bring us psychopathic killers on a near-weekly basis, but common or garden dementia rarely gets a look in. Not that I'm agitating for it. Two movies on senility this year are plenty to be getting on with. It says something that both of them are written and directed by women. If Sarah Polley's Away from Her trod delicately (even ga-ga, Julie Christie seemed beatific), Tamara Jenkins' The Savages has the guts to start at the fuzzy end of the lollipop: Lenny (Philip Read more