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The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
2007 · Directed by Tamara Jenkins · 114 min · Drama · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
There's a moment in everyone's life when childhood ends and adulthood begins. For Jon and Wendy Savage, that moment is now.
Crew
- Written by: Tamara Jenkins
- Cinematography: W. Mott Hupfel III
- Edited by: Brian A. Kates
- Music: Stephen Trask
- Production design: Jane Ann Stewart
- Produced by: Anne Carey, Ted Hope, Erica Westheimer
Cast
- Laura Linney as Wendy Savage
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Jon Savage
- Philip Bosco as Lenny Savage
- Peter Friedman as Larry
- David Zayas as Eduardo
- Gbenga Akinnagbe as Jimmy
- Cara Seymour as Kasia
- Tonye Patano as Ms. Robinson
- Guy Boyd as Bill Lachman
- Debra Monk as Nancy Lachman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Lone Star Film Group, This is that, Ad Hominem Enterprises
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $10,653,221
- Themes: daughter, depression, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, literature professor, brother, professor, son, alzheimer's disease, pflegen
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