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Slums of Beverly Hills director's
new film is a piercing and funny
tale about adult siblings.
Michael Fox
Special to the Jewish News
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fhe Savages
here's comedy, there's trag-
edy and there's tragicomedy.
Somebody needs to coin a
new word to describe what it is that
filmmaker Tamara Jenkins does so
skillfully.
Her semi-autobiographical 1998
debut, Slums of Beverly Hills, with Alan
Arkin playing an irascible Jewish hus-
tler raising three kids on his own on
the downside of L.A., was a real treat.
It's taken almost a decade for
Jenkins, 45, to challenge the sopho-
more jinx, but from a moviegoer's
perspective it's more than worth it. The
Savages, a piercing and funny tale of
adult siblings jarred out of their lives
by the sudden responsibility of caring
for their elderly, estranged father, is
one of the strongest — and least self-
indulgent — movies of this year.
The Savages is scheduled to open
Tuesday, Dec. 25, at the Landmark
Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield
Township.
With theater vet Philip Bosco play-
ing Lenny Savage and Laura Linney
as his neurotic Manhattan daughter,
the film has a distinctly Jewish flavor.
The inclusion of a scene from The Jazz
Singer, featuring a Jewish immigrant's
view of New York, confirms the accent.
But that Jewish sensibility doesn't
extend to Wendy's brother Jon, a
professor played by Philip Seymour
Hoffman. That suits Jenkins, who is
half-Jewish (on her father's side) and
half-Italian, just fine.
"There was no intentional profile,
but they're a very specific kind of fam-
ily and a certain style of people says
the dark-haired, fast-talking writer-
director. "In some way it feels more
like New York, or more East Coast-y
to me, than necessarily Jewish. But I
felt that Bosco was Jewish and that
the mother [whom we never meet]
wasn't. That was sort of in my brain. I
come from a very muddy background
of half-this and half-that, and nothing
was celebrated and everything was cel-
ebrated and it was just kind of a mush.
And I sort of felt that [the Savage fam-