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14/12/2011
A love story of sorts, Clooney plays a neglectful father in Hawaii trying to tend to his daughters after his wife falls into an accident-induced coma.
The state of Hawaii is also a co-star with the favoured honeymoon venue getting top billing alongside the actors.
The film was chosen on Sunday as the year's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are an early influence on the way to the Academy Awards.
The plot is about how Matt King (Clooney), a descendant of one of Hawaii's first white land-owning families, must decide whether to open up a vast tract of virgin forest on Kauai to tourist and condo development. At the same time, he faces a personal crisis.
The film opens with his thrill-loving wife Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie) in a boating accident off Waikiki Beach.
Matt has been involved in land management; he holds the controlling share of his extended family's estate.
Elizabeth has run their own family, raising their daughters: the teenager Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) and the younger Scottie (Amara Miller).
Now Elizabeth is in a coma, and her living will instructs Matt to remove life support.
Alexandra returns home from boarding school, and Matt becomes a single parent while also dealing with the King family's urgent desire to close the multi-million-dollar land deal.
Matt's life is further complicated when he discovers from an unexpected source that his wife had been having an affair.
And his daughters don't want him to sell the land, where they must often have wandered as children. Leading the push for the King family is Cousin Hugh (Beau Bridges). Hugh, who is as affable as Bridges can be, doesn't want to listen to any woo-hoo nonsense about not selling.
The story is based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, the daughter of a famous surfer and politician.
(BMcC)
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Marital Focus In Clooney's Hawaii Movie
Ageing movie heartthrob, George Clooney has excelled with his new family drama The Descendants.A love story of sorts, Clooney plays a neglectful father in Hawaii trying to tend to his daughters after his wife falls into an accident-induced coma.
The state of Hawaii is also a co-star with the favoured honeymoon venue getting top billing alongside the actors.
The film was chosen on Sunday as the year's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are an early influence on the way to the Academy Awards.
The plot is about how Matt King (Clooney), a descendant of one of Hawaii's first white land-owning families, must decide whether to open up a vast tract of virgin forest on Kauai to tourist and condo development. At the same time, he faces a personal crisis.
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The film opens with his thrill-loving wife Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie) in a boating accident off Waikiki Beach.
Matt has been involved in land management; he holds the controlling share of his extended family's estate.
Elizabeth has run their own family, raising their daughters: the teenager Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) and the younger Scottie (Amara Miller).
Now Elizabeth is in a coma, and her living will instructs Matt to remove life support.
Alexandra returns home from boarding school, and Matt becomes a single parent while also dealing with the King family's urgent desire to close the multi-million-dollar land deal.
Matt's life is further complicated when he discovers from an unexpected source that his wife had been having an affair.
And his daughters don't want him to sell the land, where they must often have wandered as children. Leading the push for the King family is Cousin Hugh (Beau Bridges). Hugh, who is as affable as Bridges can be, doesn't want to listen to any woo-hoo nonsense about not selling.
The story is based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, the daughter of a famous surfer and politician.
(BMcC)
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