The Savages (M) Cry-baby session - Wednesday August 20, 11am Now Showing Starts July 24 Director: Tamara Jenkins (THE SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS) 124mins

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggles their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Linney, MYSTIC RIVER) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her day applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbour. Jon (Seymour Hoffman, CAPOTE) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco, WONDER BOYS), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help.

Now, as they put their already arrested lived on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father’s final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.