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The Savages (19-Jan-2007)

Director: Tamara Jenkins

Writer: Tamara Jenkins

Keywords: Drama, Comedy

Brother and sister struggle to tackle the challenges of adult responsibility when they are called upon to care for their ailing abusive father.

ABSTRACT
Jon and Wendy Savage, adults and siblings, find themselves gripped by an eternal struggle to move on from formative years spent living under the roof of abusive father Lenny. When Lenny's girlfriend dies and leaves him all alone with progressive dementia, he is placed in the care of his estranged children, presenting the pair with a troublesome quandary as they are forced to assuage the pain of a man responsible for their immense emotional trauma's final years.

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