Quotes Matt King : I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. User reviews Review. Top review. King George's court. I love the freedom oozing from Alexander Payne's films. The clarity and simplicity of the idea and its execution.
All the answers and unity found under a grieving cloud. George Clooney's Matt King is, quite simply, superb. The humanity of the man mingling with his contradictions. So refreshing to spend time with this immediately recognizable man. I couldn't help but loving him.
If it's true that Clooney dominates the film, he is surrounded by compelling characters. His eldest daughter, played by the remarkable Shailene Woodley for instance or her boyfriend, a winning Nick Krause, contribute to make "The Descendants" one of the best films of FAQ 1. The movie is based on Kaui Hart Hemmings's debut novel. Have any other adaptations of debut novels had this much success? Details Edit. Release date December 9, United States. United States. Official Facebook Official site.
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Payne's films are usually about people forced into difficult personal decisions. Do you remember Laura Dern in " Citizen Ruth " ? He always carefully establishes his lead characters in a matrix of supporting characters who are given weight and complexity, so we feel the pressures they're experiencing. Here there is Scott Thorson Robert Forster , his father-in-law, a flinty, self-confident man who perhaps always has had doubts about Matt.
The film follows Matt's legal, family and emotional troubles in careful detail, until Payne shows us, without forcing it, that they are all coiled together. A solution for one must be a solution for all. This is so much more complex than most movie plots, where good and evil are neatly compartmented and can be sorted out at the end.
Payne is gifted at using the essence of an actor. He links something in their nature to their characters. Consider Robert Forster, handsome, tanned, angry in a complex way about his daughter's imminent death because she might not have been in the boat if Matt had been a better husband. Thorson has a moment of stunning truth with Sid Nick Krause , the seemingly spaced-out boyfriend of Alexandra; Sid is also not as simple as he seems.
Consider Matthew Lillard as the adulterer; not a bad man. Consider Beau Bridges, who is reluctant to be the bad guy, but not unwilling. What happens is that we get vested in the lives of these characters.
That's rare in a lot of movies. We come to understand how they think and care about what they decide. There are substantial moral problems underlying the plot. And George Clooney? What essence does Payne see in him? I believe it is intelligence. Some actors may not be smart enough to sound convincing; the wrong actor in this role couldn't convince us that he understands the issues involved. Clooney strikes me as manifestly the kind of actor who does.
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