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Watch: The Savages 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 37,658
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 317 Popularity: 8.702 | TMDB

Reviews:

Best independent film of 2007!
The Savages (2007) was written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. Jenkins gets everything right in this film about three family members who barely connect with each other. Laura Linney plays Wendy Savage–a NYC playwright who works as a temp and waits for an artistic breakthrough. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays her brother Jon, who teaches drama at a college in Buffalo. Although the siblings aren’t particularly hostile towards each other, they clearly don’t have a close or affectionate relationship.

A health crisis makes it necessary for the two to travel to Sun City, Arizona, to care for their father. We only see Lenny Savage as an old man with dementia. He’s not exactly a warm and loving person as the film opens. Moreover, we learn that he wasn’t a great parent before the dementia, either. Both his son and his daughter don’t keep in touch with him, nor he with them. Now they have to deal with a crisis that forces them together.

Hoffman and Linney are two of he finest actors on the screen today, and, when they play off against each other, the result is movie magic. Everything rings true–their love/hate relationship, their professional jealousy, and their disapproval of each other’s love life. They aren’t exactly the two people best suited to make life and death decisions about their father, but that’s the reality they face, and they have to deal with it as best they can.

I’ve written almost 200 reviews for IMDb, and I’ve never even considered mentioning the casting director. This review is the exception. My compliments to Jeanne McCarthy, who has filled this movie with an extraordinary set of actors in small roles. Everyone Wendy and Jon meet looks right for the role–nurses, psychologists, administrators, aides, students, etc., etc. It would be worth seeing the movie again just to watch the actors who aren’t stars.

There’s also an excellent supporting actor. Peter Friedman plays Larry, the married man with whom Wendy is having an affair. Their scene in a motel room is short but both powerful and poignant. (Actually, every scene in which Linney appears is powerful and poignant, but Friedman holds his own in this one.)

We saw the movie in a theater, but an intimate film of this type should do well on DVD. Incidentally, most of the movie takes place in Buffalo, New York, and director Jenkins obviously has a real feel for the city and its people.

This may be the best independent film of 2007. Don’t miss it!

Not what the DVD package leads you to expect
This is a great movie, but pay no attention to the DVD packaging calling it “darkly funny”, “singularly funny” and so on. While it does have a few good gags that made me laugh out loud once or twice, it’s only about 25% comedy and the rest is a heavy, emotional drama about the painful subject of slow, lingering death.

Two siblings (played by Laura Linney & Philip Seymour Hoffman) are burdened with the task of taking care of their estranged father who they learn is suffering from dementia. The comedy is just enough to keep it from getting too depressing but not so much that it upstages the gravity of the situation.

The pacing is appropriately slow. You’ll find no car chases, shootouts, contrived romances or M-Night-Shyamalanian twists; the story is not even very significant. Instead, pay attention to the relationships between the characters, their emotional disconnection from each other & the world, and their efforts to confront their lack of intimacy. What’s interesting about this movie is that it begins with no details about the characters, but slowly the past emerges and is only fully explained in the final scene.

If you like movies about real life, I think you’ll enjoy this. And if you’re interested in films about families/people dealing with illnesses & disorders, also check out “Away From Her”, “Autumn Hearts”, and “Phoebe in Wonderland” …all good movies without the standard Hollywood cheese.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min), 1 hr 53 min (113 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 10653221
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Tamara Jenkins
Writer Tamara Jenkins
Actors Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 17 wins & 33 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Laser Pacific Media Corporation, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, New York (NY), USA (film dailies), Technicolor, USA
Film Length 3,130 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 250D 5205, Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)