Last weekend I was left alone to babysit (I guess it's not really babysitting when it's your own child, but that's beside the point) my snoozing daughter while my husband was chatting with his parents and sister down the street. This left me alone to watch movies - yeah!
I watched The Savages and Evening. I wanted to watch these film solely because of the casts (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Savages, and Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, etc. for Evening). I knew enough about these films to know that Josh would not want to see them but that was about it.
Had I known that The Savages was about siblings taking care of their father in the last few months of his life and Evening was about siblings taking care of their mother in the last few days of her life (ok, fine it's really about the mother's memories of a past love, but her children are there) I would not have watched them back to back. How depressing.
They were both good in their own ways - Linney and Hoffman can do no wrong in my book. If you are a watcher of the Independent Film Channel I would recommend The Savages. If Lifetime Network is more your cup of tea then Evening has your number big time. And if you are a fan of both go rent them - but do yourself a favor and space them out!
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