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The Descendants
The life of Matt King, an ambitious and intelligent native islander, who enjoys his life with his small family, has been changed completely, when he faces a fatal accident that leads his wife to get in a coma, the thing that turns his life upside down, as he has to work as the mother and father for his children, while dealing with his wor.
4 June 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
9 December 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 January 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
13 July 1941, Rochester, New York, USA
18 April 1968, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA
14 April 1992, Austin, Texas, USA
4 June 1969, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
10 April 1936, Camden, New Jersey, USA
30 January 1974, Anaheim, California, USA
6 May 1961, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
October 07, 2015
Mr. Payne's undeniable knack for naturalism makes "The Descendants" a wholly persuasive and heartfelt experience.
June 22, 2013
A truthful, warm-hearted, deeply moving film about loss, about death, about legacies and, yeah, family.
September 08, 2013
The Descendants is an exercise in why women are such horrible, despicable shrews. When this film isn't demonising its female characters for daring to be unhappy in their marriage, it's condescending them for showing too much emotion...
July 03, 2016
Director Alexander Payne is a master storyteller of the huge life transition. 'Sideways' is one stellar example, 'About Schmidt', another. 'Descendants' easily rivals 'Sideways.'
May 03, 2015
I enjoyed Clooney's performance enormously without ever buying it for a second.
November 23, 2011
One of the year's best films, a bubbly meditation on family and responsibility that weighs just enough to matter.
June 10, 2016
Clooney and Payne share an uncanny knack for that wistful smile in the face of havoc; for conveying the peace that comes from having lived a life, from having seen disasters come and go, and from knowing that, one way or another, this too shall pass.
June 20, 2013
The Descendants is humane, decent, and close to real quality.
November 22, 2011
In the hands of writer-director Alexander Payne, Clooney has rarely seemed so much at home.
November 22, 2011
In playing an everyman stranded between anger and duty, Clooney earns an emotional payoff that a lesser actor would simply demand.
December 02, 2011
The challenge in describing the film is that it doesn't neatly fit into any pigeonhole. It's a serious movie that happens to have a sense of humor, because Payne and his collaborators see the absurdity in everyday existence.
January 24, 2012
Payne is an unobtrusive director, a filmmaker who lets the script do the walking - in this case, perhaps too much.
