The Savages: The Shooting Script

By Tamara Jenkins

Book Overview

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 includes: Exclusive introduction by Tamara Jenkins Complete Shooting Script Color photo section Complete cast and crew credits

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557048002
• ISBN13: 9781557048004
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great way to enjoy THE SAVAGES all over again

As a studying screenplay writer, I greatly appreciate having this book/shooting script to read. As one who appreciates the deeper relationships between loved ones/families, I loved how Tamara Jenkins captures so much truth. As a daughter who spent day-to-day with her own dying father, I was touched and appreciated how fully Jenkins captured the funny, sad, cringe-worthy and vast sea of emotions involved with a dying parent.

The Best Screenplay of 2007

Forget Juno. If you want to read a crackling dark comedy, The Savages is the script for you. Tamara Jenkins script reads like a classic (which the film IS).