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The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy is a self-medicating struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon is an obsessive compulsive college professor writing obscure books on even more obscure subjects in Buffalo who still can't commit to his girlfriend after four years even though her cooking brings him tears of joy. Then, out of the blue, comes the call that changes everything. They're told that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage, has lost his marbles. And, there is no one to help him but his kids. Now, as they put the middle of their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon must live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, soon rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and the ultimate sibling rivalry battle over how to handle their father's final days, they are forced to face the past and finally start to realize what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.

Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures; Lone Star Film Group; This Is That Productions; Ad Hominem Enterprises; Cooper's Town Productions;

Cast Names
Laura Linney; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Philip Bosco; Peter Friedman; David Zayas; Gbenga Akinnagbe; Cara Seymour; Tonye Patano; Guy Boyd; Debra Monk; Rosemary Murphy; Hal Blankenship; Joan Jaffe; Sage Kirkpatrick; Salem Ludwig; Sandra Daley; Peter Frechette; Jennifer Lim; Kristine Nielsen; Christopher Durham; Maddie Corman; Cynthia Darlow; Carmen Román; Nancy Lenehan; Michael Higgins; Madeline Lee; Tijuana Ricks; Margo Martindale; Erica Berg; Michael Blackson; Sidné Anderson; Patti Karr; John Bolton; Zoe Kazan; Lee R. Sellars; Marianne Weems; Tobin Tyler; Debbi Fuhrman; Lili Liu; Max Jenkins-Goetz;

Release Date
2007-01-19 (Sundance Film Festival)
2007-10-04 (Mill Valley Film Festival)
2007-10-17 (Austin Film Festival)
2007-10-19 (Hamptons International Film Festival)
2007-11-02 (Savannah Film and Video Festival)
2007-11-28 (limited)

Genres
Comedy; Drama;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated R for some sexuality and language.

Running Time
1 hr. 54 min.
1 hr. 53 min.

Director
Tamara Jenkins

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