Tamara Jenkins

Director
Foradults interested in realist family dramas, films about aging and dementia, and strong acting performances.
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Drama

The Profile

Tamara Jenkins is an American film director and screenwriter, known for Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), The Savages (2007) and Private Life (2018).

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Savages.

The available review praises Tamara Jenkins's The Savages as a direct, unadorned examination of an American family confronting dementia. The film is noted for its realism, harsh honesty, strong performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, and a restrained ending that offers a small measure of hope.

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❝ Tamara Jenkins is direct and essential in her portrayal of an American family facing a dramatic moment that sooner or later almost everyone must confront.

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