A pair of never married, middle-aged siblings Jon Savage(Philip Seymour Hoffman)and his sister Wendy(Laura Linney)must put aside their own uncomfortable and unsentimental lives to work together to deal with their estranged father Lenny(Philip Bosco)and his dementia. Brother and sister are forced to care for their unpleasant father and both being new to compassion themselves place Lenny in a nursing home. Life seems dark and mundane. Wintertime in Buffalo, New York makes the story bleaker. It seems none of the three are happy unless they are miserable. Hoffman and Linney work well together, both providing some dark comedy to a sensitive subject. You really have to be in the right mood to enjoy this one. Kudos to writer and director Tamara Jenkins.