HELD OVER THROUGH THURS, 2/9

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards

THE DESCENDANTS

Rated R for language including some sexual references 

115 min  / 2011  / Directed by Alexander Payne

In English / USA

 

Winner of Two Golden Globe Awards: 

Best Film (Drama) and

Best Actor - George Clooney

 

NOMINATED FOR FIVE ACADEMY AWARDS:

BEST PICTURE

BEST DIRECTOR - Alexander Payne

BEST ACTOR - George Clooney

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST FILM EDITING

 

 

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Academy Award winning writer/director Alexander (Sideways, Election, Citizen Ruth) Payne’s tartly comic, yet poignant new film, set in the real workaday Hawaii, is the story of an indifferent husband and father who’s suddenly forced

to make some very tough decisions.

 

     Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

 

****: "A pitch-perfect movie that threads a microscopically tiny needle between high comedy and devastating drama." -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

 

****: "Rarely has a contemporary movie taken in so much life and revealed it with such depth of feeling."  -Joel Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

 

****: "What happens is that we get vested in the lives of these characters. That's rare in a lot of movies."

-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

 

****: "Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving." -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

 

****: "It's one of the year's most pleasurable American movies." -Michael Philips, Chicago Tribune

 

****: "Expertly mixing tears and laughs with the sort of alchemy not seen since "Terms of Endearment," this superbly written, directed, acted, and yes, Oscar-friendly movie perfectly captures the blackly comic insanity that can overtake a family forced to confront an impending death." -Lou Lumenich, New York Post

 

****: "It's a precarious balance, but Payne blends wit and poignancy so artfully it feels like an exquisitely choreographed dance." -Claudia Puig, USA Today

 

****: "Payne's low-key approach only deepens the film's intimate power. Want a movie you can really connect with? The Descendants is damn near perfect." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

 

****: "To call The Descendants perfect would be a kind of insult, a betrayal of its commitment to, and celebration of, human imperfection. Its flaws are impossible to distinguish from its pleasures." -A.O. Scott, New York Times

 

****: "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." -Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

 

 

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