MOVIE · 2011
The Descendants
ComedyDrama115 min
After a boating accident leaves his wife on life support, Matt King has to reconnect with the two daughters he’s barely been parenting and make sense of the life she kept from him. George Clooney is Matt, a Hawaiian land trustee suddenly juggling hospitals, family obligations, and a trip from Oahu to Kauai to find the man his wife had been seeing. Shailene Woodley’s Alex, angry and unsparing, becomes his reluctant ally as they move through affluent relatives, old resentments, and the decisions that follow a family crisis.
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