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The Descendants (2011)
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause
7.3
88%Runtime115 min
Rating15
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With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
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Fans of thoughtful, character-driven dramas will appreciate Alexander Payne's 2011 film The Descendants, which features a nuanced, Oscar-winning performance from George Clooney as a Hawaiian land baron navigating family grief and personal discovery.
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The Descendants is a 2011 American tragicomedy film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash is based on the 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney in the main role, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller in her film debut, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Michael Ontkean, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster, and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011, after premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011.
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