Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great acting by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney and Phillip Bosco.

If you're dying to see a really depressing movie about a miserable brother and sister who put their elderly father in a nursing home, this is the flick for you. The title is misleadingly inappropriate. Instead of referring to a tribe of violent primitives, "Savages" is the family's last name. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the sad-sack but cruelly pragmatic brother, who sets sister Laura Linney straight about the fact that they are putting demented old dad in a place that smells bad where people die. Amid the bickering, lies and shared misery, they develop a deeper relationship with each other -- and with the father who wasn't around for most of their lives. All of which sounds like a total drag, and it's certainly no laugh riot, but "The Savages" is surprisingly enjoyable as a slightly dysfunctional family drama.

This is one of those movies that I would not want to see again. It was really hard not to walk away from it because you keep thinking it will get better, but it does not!!!