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The Descendants (2011)

Directed by Alexander Payne

Drama | Comedy

Most recently watched by Allison, Angjonesy, schofizzy, elisabethwithns, Javitron, noahphex, zombiefreak

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 115 minutes

Actors

George Clooney | Shailene Woodley | Amara Miller | Nick Krause | Patricia Hastie | Grace A. Cruz | Kim Gennaula | Karen Kuioka Hironaga | Carmen Kaichi | Kaui Hart Hemmings | Beau Bridges | Matt Corboy | Matt Esecson | Michael Ontkean | Stanton Johnston | Jon McManus | Hugh Foster | Tiare R. Finney | Tom McTigue | Milt Kogan | Mary Birdsong | Rob Huebel | Laird Hamilton | Aileen "Boo" Arnold | Esther Kang | Melissa Kim | Robert Forster | Barbara L. Southern | Celia Kenney | Matt Reese | Zoel Turnbull | Matthew Lillard | Judy Greer | Linda Rose Herman | Scott Michael Morgan | Darryl K. Gonzales | Koko Kanealii | Romey "Keola" Yokotake | Fileena Bahris | Dennis Falt | Sisa Grey | Tom Holowach | Dane Justman | James Koons | John A Weaver | Larry Wegger | Joseph Wilson | Joji Yoshida

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/30/2011Movie ScreenDigitalTheater7.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

The sum of the parts don’t equal a greater result in this case but those are some pretty great parts. The story didn’t do much for me but really great character moments and individual scenes with a talented cast.

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