Estranged siblings are forced to deal with their even more estranged father's descent into age-related dementia in Tamara Jenkins' braceingly unsentimental, bitter(sweet) drama about fractured family values.
Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman) are both children of the theater, she just the right side of 40, he just the wrong, and neither an adult in any way except the baldly chronological. She's an unproduced playwright, living in a Manhattan studio apartment and having an affair with a married man (Peter Friedman), hustling for grants and pilfering supplies from the temp jobs that barely pay her rent. He's a professor in Buffalo, N...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins