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Sedona International Film Festival Presents The Savages
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The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the exclusive Arizona premiere of “The Savages” — featuring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman — on Tuesday, Nov. 6. There will be two screenings of the film at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres. “The Savages” is an irreverent look at family, love, and mortality as seen through the lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering and challenging experiences: when adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care for an estranged elderly parent. The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) 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 (Tony Award® winner Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives 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. Featuring nuanced performances from an extraordinary cast, “The Savages” marks the return of writer and director Tamara Jenkins who won acclaim for the humor and humanity of her previous film, “The Slums of Beverly Hills.” Like so many Americans, Jenkins woke up one day to discover she was living in a strange, new, rapidly aging world. Every day, she walked her dog by a neighborhood nursing home, observing aides wheeling their ever-multiplying charges around the block. She’d seen her grandmother go into a nursing home and then watched, as her own father developed dementia. Through it all, she began to realize that almost nobody was writing about these core experiences – except in the most grave, mawkish or sentimental of ways. Thus it was that Jenkins decided to tackle the subject from her own raw, real, comically tinged perspective. She was fascinated by how younger adults react to seeing their own parents drop through the rabbit hole of aging, and wanted to dig under the skin of our societal anxiety about growing up, let alone getting old. The film will be shown at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Film Sedona members, and will be available at 3:00 p.m., in the Harkins lobby. Cash or checks only. Seats are limited. Film Sedona members can purchase tickets in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office, 45 Sunset Drive, or by calling 928-282-1177. |
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