The Savages

Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman are two more actors whom I will pretty much see in any film. Throw them into a movie where they are sister and brother dealing with their father who has dementia and add to that a nomination for an Oscar and you get a movie that Roxie HAS to see! It is a movie that I will see again in the same vain as Away From Her. These two movies focus not on the disease of Dementia or Alzheimer's but on how the patient's family members deal with the loss of the affected family member. Wonderfully written screenplay and acted with humor and strength and leaves the viewer in a thought-provoking state. Two thumbs up pointing in my Grandmother's honor at the wonderful effect she had and has on my life.........Please donate to Alzheimer and/or dementia research!