Review of The Savages

Review

Savages delves into areas complex and understandable - two self-absorbed siblings who must become the parent to their father who was barely a parent to them.

The two siblings, played by Linney and Hoffman, are entirely likeable, but flawed all the same. Linney plays an aspiring playwright who is struggling to form a relationship and instead is involved with an older, married man. Hoffman plays a professor with a degree in Philosophy who is in a relationship with a foreign woman who must soon go back to her own country.

The two pair beautifully together and give the movie its heartfelt comedy. Linney's character is nervous and spastic, whereas Hoffman is more reserved yet equally troubled. Despite their lack of collaboration in the years before their father's illness, they discover family again in their independent world.

9/10

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Added by Charis 1 year ago on 14 August 2008 03:28