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Having grown up with a domineering father in difficult household, adult siblings Wendy (Laura Linney) and John (Philip Seymour Hoffman) have long gone their separate ways to live very different lives. Wendy is a struggling scriptwriter, consumed with her own inability to achieve recognition for her work, and her agoraphobic tendencies see her largely confined to her flat. John is a college professor, specialising in obscure subjects. When Wendy gets the call to say their father is ill, the pair are plucked from their normal lives and are thrown into a new world of doctors, nursing homes and responsibility as their ailing father is slowly consumed by dementia. For the first time in a long time, the siblings have to deal with the quirks of their own family in The Savages. The film opens this Thursday in cinemas everywhere.