Screenwriter and director Alexander Payne, the brains behind Sideways, About Schmidt, and Election (one of my favorite movies), next brings us The Descendants, a movie set in Hawaii and starring George Clooney. But the story is far from glamorous; instead, it’s about the ways Clooney’s character navigates the moments that are thrust on him by tragedy (he can no longer be a detached father after his daughter’s mother is involved in a boating accident that leaves her in a coma) and circumstance (he becomes a key player in his extended family’s considerations into selling the land they inherited from their family ties to Hawaiian royalty and Christian missionaries).A movie reviewer states that “The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace.” I can’t say it much better than that. The movie is definitely worth watching, unless you have an aversion to well-acted dramatic comedies, beautiful scenes from Hawaii, or Clooney's handsomeness.
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