The Frame

from the pen of Jandy Stone

Posts Tagged ‘Laura Linney’

The Savages

By Jandy • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Estranged siblings Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) are forced to care for their aging and increasingly senile father when the woman he lives with dies, leaving him without a home. This is not a particularly exciting proposition to anyone involved – both siblings are playwrights (Jon much more successfully than [...]


The Squid and the Whale

By Jandy • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney are married writers/academics who finally drive each other too crazy to keep living together, sending their two adolescent sons into turmoil with them when they separate. Though the characters in the film are constantly at cross-purposes and seem to willfully misunderstand each other, everything about the film works together to [...]