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Format: DVD
Release Date: 04-22-2008
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Product Name: Savages [DVD] [2007]
UPC: 024543506799
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice dramedy
Great acting by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney and Phillip Bosco.
Posted by Vascos
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Not-bad dysfunctional family drama
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.
Posted by backrowreviews
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
This movie was OK
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!!!
