The Descendants

IMDb

7.3/10

Rated

R

The Descendants is a 2011 comedy-drama directed by Alexander Payne and set in Hawaii. George Clooney plays Matt King, a busy lawyer and trustee of a valuable family land inheritance, whose wife Elizabeth is left in a coma after a boating accident. Suddenly in charge of his two daughters, rebellious teenager Alex, played by Shailene Woodley, and ten-year-old Scottie, he learns a painful secret about his marriage and travels across the islands looking for answers.

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