Country: USA
Year: 2007
Duration: 113'
Wendy Savage, an aspiring playwright, languishes in temp jobs and has an affair with a married neighbour. Wendy’s brother, Jon, is a theatrearts professor who slogging through an overdue book on Brecht. Neither sibling is fulfilled by their pursuits, and things quickly take a turn for the worse when they are called upon to arrange care for their ailing father, Lenny. Lenny’s ability to manage for himself has run out. Wendy and Jon have to get over long-standing tensions – with each other and with Lenny – to find their dad a suitable place to live out his days. “I wrote a scene about ten years ago where a sister is calling her brother freaking out about her dad. I didn’t even know what it was connected to. I think I was just interested in a sibling dynamic, and that was the first sign of it. As I was writing, it became very clear to me that it was about these two individuals, they were born under the same roof, under the same circumstances, and they adapt to the world in certain ways based on the damage of their childhood. Their coping mechanisms were very different.”
Biography
film director
Tamara Jenkins
(Philadelphia, 1962), after a few years as a performance artist she attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she received a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking in 1993. She made several short films, including Fugitive Love (1991) and Family Remains (1994), which received a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1998 she made her feature film debut with the autobiographical Slums of Beverly Hills that was premiered at Cannes Film Festival. She has since directed theatre for The New Group, published in literary journals (especially in Francis Coppola’s “Zoetrope: All Story”) worked as an actress, and she made a series of public service announcements for Amnesty International.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fugitive Love (cm, 1991), Family
Remains (mm, 1993), Slums of Beverly
Hills (L’altra faccia di Beverly Hills,
1998), Choices: The Good, the Bad,
the Ugly (cm, 2004), The Savages
(La famiglia Savage, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Tamara Jenkins
fotografia/director of photography Mott Hupfel
scenografia/set design Jane Ann Stewart
costumi/costume design David C. Robinson
montaggio/film editor Brian A. Kates
musica/music Stephen Trask
suono/sound Mathew Price
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Laura Linney (Wendy Savage), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jon Savage), Philip Bosco (Lenny Savage), Peter Friedman (Larry), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Jimmy), Cara Seymour (Kasia), Sidné Anderson (Simone), Michael Blackson (Howard), Hal Blankenship (Burt), Guy Boyd (Bill), Joan Jaffe (Lizzie), Margo Martindale (Roz), Debra Monk (Nancy)
produttore/producer Ted Hope, Anne Carey, Erica Westheimer
produzione/production Ad Hominem Enterprises, Lone Star Film Group, This Is That Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Lori Keith Douglas
distribuzione/distribution 20th Century Fox Italia
fotografia/director of photography Mott Hupfel
scenografia/set design Jane Ann Stewart
costumi/costume design David C. Robinson
montaggio/film editor Brian A. Kates
musica/music Stephen Trask
suono/sound Mathew Price
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Laura Linney (Wendy Savage), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jon Savage), Philip Bosco (Lenny Savage), Peter Friedman (Larry), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Jimmy), Cara Seymour (Kasia), Sidné Anderson (Simone), Michael Blackson (Howard), Hal Blankenship (Burt), Guy Boyd (Bill), Joan Jaffe (Lizzie), Margo Martindale (Roz), Debra Monk (Nancy)
produttore/producer Ted Hope, Anne Carey, Erica Westheimer
produzione/production Ad Hominem Enterprises, Lone Star Film Group, This Is That Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Lori Keith Douglas
distribuzione/distribution 20th Century Fox Italia
TFF
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