In “Slums of Beverly Hills,” Tamara Jenkins’ 1998 debut film, a somewhat crummy dad buys his teen daughter her first bra. Nearly a decade later, in the director’s second feature film, “The Savages,” an adult daughter gets her pretty crummy dad his first diapers.

At 45, the director is 10 years older and her concerns have shifted from growing up to growing old, but she’s still engrossed by the drama of the flawed parent-child relationship and the dark comedy of familial misery.

Source: Family angst? Now that’s something she can work with – latimes