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Philip Seymour Hoffman (Magnolia, Capote) is just about the best character actor in Hollywood. Laura Linney (You Can Count On Me, The Squid And The Whale) is pretty much Queen of the indie scene. Give them a chance to bounce off one another in a pin-sharp comedy drama and it's quite something.
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Jenkins brings a rigor, intelligence and eye for the slightly absurd to the proceedings that is instantly disarming.
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Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages, is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.
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Shrewd and unshowy family tragi-comedy with the best two American screen actors alive.
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A brutal encounter with mortality told with uncommon humanity, wit and humor.
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It is more sad-funny than funny-funny, but Jenkins has enough empathy and wit to realize that even the sad parts are, somehow, funny.
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The interaction between Hoffman and Linney makes following their characters from their winter of hard experience to a spring of renewed hope well worth the while.
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A richly nuanced American comedy, with two acting talents working at their absolute peak.
Full reviewThe Savages is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play.
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