![]() Hoffman, her older brother, has a really relaxed humanistic side to him, always countering Linney's loud worrisome actions with a calm, mind-processing technique. Linney plays a woman who is really confused with her life: she's having an affair with a married man who's ten years older than her, she lies to everyone she knows about things that aren't worth it, and she is having a lot of trouble getting produced as a writer. The three performances are all great for their own reasons. She really understands the way family relations work, as her film is spot-on in that aspect. The way Tamara Jenkins handles this, from both the perspective of the kids and the perspective of the father, is brilliant. Instead of their main concern being whether or not he's kind to them, the kids are afraid they won't be able to communicate with him at all. However, their father has dementia, and slowly begins to forget who they are. From there, Linney and Hoffman's characters meet up with the father whom they haven't seen in years, and who was never very compassionate towards them. Brosco plays their father, who has done something really, well, "dirty," and has drawn the attention of the family that had been caring for him, who no longer wish to do so. ![]() Linney and Hoffman play brother and sister, two writers who have an argumentative but loving way of getting along. It features three of the year's finest performances from Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Phillip Brosco, all of whom radiate on the screen as real, ordinary but complex, people. It's incredibly easy to relate to if you have ever ever seen some relative or family friend of yours get old and then forget who you are due to some sort of elder person's disease. To put it simply, "The Savages" is the most human look at life I've seen in theaters this year. ![]()
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