The Savages/ Academy Award Nominated Movies
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We were off yesterday to see another movie with Academy Award talk swirling around it. This movie is the second one we have seen recently about the emotional crisis surrounding the move of a family member to a nursing home. Julie Christie played a married woman with Alzheimer’s disease. So she is up for the award in the Actress in a Leading Roll category.
And in The Savages Laura Linney is up for the same award for her role as the daughter of someone who needs to be placed in a nursing home.
Allen Page of course is also up for the award but her chances are not great I would say. And in her movie we are dealing with arrivals and not departures. Baby boomers will soon be transfixed with all sorts of ideas about nursing homes as thy approach en masse the realization that there are far fewer than are needed to care for them all.
For this reason alone I suggest the award will head in this direction.
The movie The Savages we found very interesting and entertaining to a degree. There was a scene in an airplane that prompted me to head for the popcorn machine. We have two adults who are confronted with the need to care for the father who left them long ago. And they are surprisingly compassionate.
They grow during the movie. That is one of its most satisfying features. And they manage to resolve the crisis with some help from Medicaid. Their father has nothing so there are no battles over property or savings.
I didn’t enjoy it as much as Juno but it was better by far than Away From Her with Julie Christie.
The other two nominees deserve another post. So here are some videos that I thought were pretty good. My good buddy YouTube is a real help these days.
And here is a review of The Savages in the NY Times if you want to read maybe a real review of the movie before you go see it.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/movies/28sava.html
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