From writer/director Tamara Jenkins (The Slums of Beverly Hills) and starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco, the official screenplay book tie-in to the movie from Fox Searchlight Pictures that takes an irreverent look at family, love, and mortality.
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This cinema release date is 25th January 2008, Nominated for 2 Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay.The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Academy Award[registered] nominee Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, aka a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies, and dating her very married neighbour. Jon (Academy Award[registered] winner 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 (Tony Award[registered] winner Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones who can help.Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy.
Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family, and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.TamaraJenkins isthe writer anddirector of Slums of Beverly Hills(1998) as well as several award-winningshort films, includingFamily Remains (1994) and FugitiveLove (1991). She is a former performanceartist and actress. She livesin New York City.
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