Our weekend Netflix viewing was The Savages, a 2007 film starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman who play a sister and brother who are called in to care for their ailing father. The siblings leave New York City and Buffalo in the fall to pick up their father in Sun City, Arizona.
I laughed at some of the establishing shots of the landscaping in Sun City. I had to share.
As far as the film, I liked it. As expected, the siblings have issues between them, including some sibling rivalry that’s simmered for four decades. But all in all they’re adults trying hard to do the right thing for their father: nothing too Hollywood and cloyingly uplifting, but nothing that’s a real downer, either.
Of course such mature behavior would never fly in many families I’m familiar with. Overall it left me with the feeling that’s best summed up by a bumpersticker John has that hasn’t made it onto a vehicle yet: My Family is More Dysfunctional than Yours.
Lots of lollipops there. LOL.
Amusing shapes but not nearly as funny as the landscaping in Edward Scissorhands. I love the surreal look of the whole village in that movie.
Nice screen captures.
More importantly, how were the gardens in Buffalo? I haven’t seen the movie yet, but remember when they were here filming. Some scenes were shot not too far from my neighborhood.
Donna, lollipops for sure, acres and acres of them…
LHWG, Edward Scissorhands definitely had a fantastic look to it. Sun City is totally real and that got to me.
Jim, I’m afraid the Buffalo shots–taken in November and December–were’nt very good advertising for Garden Walks Buffalo: Arizona was shot in warm daylit tones, but the New York scenes were either gray or sickly-yellow, the color of low-wattage incandescent lighting. The landscape wasn’t the perky, surreal presence that it was in Sun City.
Figures. Gray and sickly yellow happens a few days a year, as they do in most cities. November is gorgeous here. So far, we’ve had relentless pleasant, blue-sky days. We also had, this past year, the longest time between spring & fall frosts in more than a century.
I think it was Woody Allen who said “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
It looks like a drive through Sun City would be good for a giggle, but I don’t think I would want to spend time there.
I remember loving the movie but why don’t I remember those shots? Pathetic!