Savages 1972 R, 105 min. Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: James Ivory Cast: Lewis J. Stadlen, Thayer David, Susan Blakely, Russ Thacker, Salome Jens, Margaret Brewster, Neil Fitzgerald, Eva Saleh, Ultra Violet, Kathleen Widdoes, Sam Waterston, Martin Kove, Anne Francine, Christopher Pennock, Asha Puthli
As primitive mud people follow a croquet ball through the forest, the trail ends at a Long Island estate. Although no one is home, the mud people don clothes found on the estate, become civilized, and party as if they were upper-class society. But, civilization isn't far from the savage state as is shown when party-goers follow a croquet ball that is hit back into the forest and they re-enter their primitive world.
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The Savages 2007 R, 113 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Tamara Jenkins Cast: 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, Salem Ludwig
Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the grown children of their abusive father Lenny (Philip Bosco), learn that Lenny is suffering from dementia and is dying. They fly to Arizona and bring Lenny back home to Buffalo where Wendy and Jon reunite under one roof for the first time since childhood and are forced to reconcile past differences in order to deal with their father's impending death. The film received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress (Linney).
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