with writer/director Tamara Jenkins and David Edelstein

Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, the two Savage siblings are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright and. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Featuring nuanced performances from an extraordinary cast, The Savages marks the return of writer and director Tamara Jenkins who won acclaim for the humor and humanity of her previous film, The Slums of Beverly Hills.