“The Savages,” 10 January 2009 (2007), DVD. I liked this dark comedy with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney more than Bronwen did. A brother and sister, he a professor of drama (Brecht specialist), she a struggling playwright, are called to Sun City to retrieve their 80+ yo father (Philip Bosco) as he declines from dementia. They bring him back to Buffalo and then act out their guilt, their love, their pain about themselves and their family together. Well acted and written/directed by Tamara Jenkins, this one really worked on me. Some lovely moments (his crying from jealousy even while he’s in traction on hearing his sister has won a Guggenheim). I found it moving and touching. Both can only really become successful adults on their father’s death. Is there something infantilizing about actually perpetuating life not well lived?. Has our ability to prolong both old age and adolescence (into our forties) made many of us both weaker and less happy? Anyway, I liked it.