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AWARDS DATABASE
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MOVIES 
It's about dad:
Laura Linney's character telephones her brother.
(Andy Schwartz / Fox Searchlight Pictures) Tamara Jenkins
"The Savages"
Jenkins tells the story of two siblings who have to put their estranged father in a nursing home. The first scene she worked on inspired the rest of the film, but not until years later. In it, Wendy calls her brother in the middle of the night to tell him about an alarming act by their possibly demented father. "That scene -- when I wrote it originally, I must have written it a million years ago -- it was almost in a preconscious state. I wasn't working toward a screenplay, it was one of those scenes that you write and you throw it in your drawer and you don't know what it's connected to. So it really was a kind of nucleus scene, and only many years later, when I started locating the idea of the story and I had an interest in writing about adult siblings, [did I revisit it]. . . . I didn't know who these people were, I didn't know what I was after, except it was clear that I was interested in these two siblings that had to confront something really primal and intense."
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