
Premiere Screening: THE SAVAGES
Jan. 17 @ 7:30pm
The Colony Theater
Raleigh
Each pass admits two
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy is a struggling East Village playwright, aka a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage, is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father’s final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Free passes available while supplies last; each pass admits two. Passes must be picked up at the CW22/MyRDC TV studios at 3012 Highwoods Blvd., Raleigh. 919-872-2854
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