The Savages: The Shooting Script

by Tamara Jenkins

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to dowas look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggledtheir 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 strugglingEast Village playwright, aka a temp who spends her daysapplying for grants, stealing office supplies, and dating her verymarried neighbor. Jon (Academy Award ® winner PhilipSeymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writingbooks on obscure subjects in Buffalo.Then comes the call thatinforms them that the father they have long feared and avoided,Lenny Savage (Tony Award ® winner Philip Bosco), is slowlybeing consumed by dementia and they are the only onesthat can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold,Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof forthe first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricitiesthat drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval andbattling over how to handle their father's final days, they areconfronted with what adulthood, family, and, most surprisingly,each other are really about. This Newmarket Shooting Script ® Book

Genres: Family

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2008