

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Acting
Linney and Hoffman's sibling chemistry is uncomfortably perfect.
Writing
Jenkins' script finds comedy in the mortifying logistics of death.
Direction
Tamara Jenkins makes Buffalo look like emotional purgatory.

Director
Tamara Jenkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tamara Jenkins wrote the script after her own father entered a nursing home; she spent years workshopping it at Sundance labs while working on 'Slums of Beverly Hills.'
The film captures a specific 2007 anxiety: educated, artistic thirtysomethings realizing their boomer parents are mortal and they can't afford to care for them.
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