http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx THE SAVAGES is a story about life and growing.  I guess a lot of movies are about life and growing, but realistically this story is about confronting the fact that as you go on with your mundane life everyone you know does also, regardless if you keep in contact r not.  There are themes of growing and forgiveness and the necessity of family in a society that is trained to run away from their childhoods in order to grow up and away from the people they knew as a child.  The film begins with introducing us to Wendy Savage (Laura Linney).  Wendy’s pathetic life exists between her boring temping job and the affair she’s having with her married next-door neighbor.  She’s trying to get a grant so that she can write her play, which is suppose to be her magnum opus or something, and her entire lame life is interrupted when she gets a voicemail saying that her elderly father, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), she hasn’t thought about in years has been caught having a scat party in his own bathroom.  She immediately calls her slacker bother, Jon Savage (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) in the middle of the night to freak out.  Jon tells his sister they’re only having a yellow alert and they should go back to sleep.  Soon thereafter they enter red alert status when the woman their father’s been living with for the past twenty years passes away and they have to fly from New York to Arizona to come and manage their father’s affairs. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx#2398 strangely, i think i would like to see this/ brokun1 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx#2398 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:51:01 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx#2433 not sure about this one.lol tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/12/02/THE-SAVAGES-A-Brute-Dramedy.aspx#2433 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:05:39 GMT