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AwardsBest Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 2012 - Alexander Payne, Best Actor In A Leading Role 2012 - George Clooney, Best Motion Picture - Drama 2011 -, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2012 -
Additional InformationAlexander Payne's seriocomic THE DESCENDANTS, an adaptation of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, stars George Clooney as Matt King, a middle age Hawaiian who runs a trust responsible for millions of dollars worth of untouched real estate that has been passed down to him and various cousins. He is preparing to sell the area, and make millions for everyone in the trust, when his wife suffers a severe head trauma during a boat race. As he attempts to get her affairs in order, he learns that she had been having an affair. With his two daughters in tow, along with his oldest daughter's doofus boyfriend, Matt sets off to confront the man who made him a cuckold. Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, and Robert Forster co-star.
ReviewsPhiladelphia Inquirer - Clooney has never been better, subtler, more deeply rooted in a performance than he is in The Descendants. And he's funny, too., Variety - Nearly every detail sources directly back to Kaui Hart Hemmings' sensitively crafted novel, and yet, Payne's triumph is in striking the right tone -- and knowing what to leave unsaid., Wall Street Journal - Rarely has a contemporary movie taken in so much life and revealed it with such depth of feeling., Washington Post - A pitch-perfect movie that threads a microscopically tiny needle between high comedy and devastating drama., Hollywood Reporter - After a five-year wait since "Sideways," Alexander Payne has made his best film yet with The DESCENDANTS. Ostensibly a study of loss and coping with a tragic situation, this wonderfully nuanced look at a father and two daughters dealing with the imminent death of his wife and their mother turns the miraculous trick of possibly being even funnier than it is moving., Salon.com - THE DESCENDANTS is gentle, witty, audience-friendly entertainment for grown-ups, with a great performance by one of our biggest screen stars., Boxoffice Magazine - THE DESCENDANTS is that rare bird, moving, enlightening, funny and unapologetically human. It's one of the year's best pictures, one to savor and think about.