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The Savages
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Monday Jan 7, 2008 (1pm)
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Until The Savages, director Tamara Jenkins had been languishing with a real case of the what-have-you-done-for-us-latelies; her last film, the incorrigible, smart-mouthed Slums of Beverly Hills, hit theaters more than nine years ago. That said, amnesia can go both ways, and this new fable about adult siblings (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman) forced to abandon their long estrangement in order to tend to their ailing father has already set tongues a-flapping in the festival circuit. The trick here is the scale — minute wit, gestures, and maturation — and a crumpled sincerity that renders impossible the big-scale manipulation that typically comprises silver-screen emotional reckonings.
