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''The Descendants'' is a 2011 dramedy film, directed by Creator/AlexanderPayne and based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney as a Hawaii based lawyer. When his wife is in a boating accident and is left in a coma, he has to care for his daughters on his own, despite knowing little about them, while fighting a breakdown when he's told his wife's living will demands she be taken off life support. When one of his daughters reveals that his wife was cheating on him, he begins a journey with his daughters (and one of his daughter's 'friends') to find the man, partially to confront him and partially to tell him he should come say goodbye before she dies. No relation to ''Film/{{Descendants}}''.

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''The Descendants'' is a 2011 dramedy film, directed by Creator/AlexanderPayne and based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney as a Hawaii based lawyer. When his wife is in a boating accident and is left in a coma, he has to care for his daughters on his own, despite knowing little about them, while fighting a breakdown when he's told his wife's living will demands she be taken off life support. When one of his daughters reveals that his wife was cheating on him, he begins a journey with his daughters (and one of his daughter's 'friends') to find the man, partially to confront him and partially to tell him he should come say goodbye before she dies.

No relation to ''Film/{{Descendants}}''.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Elizabeth while on life support. The small amount we see of her at the start of the movie before the accident is rather attractive, but as the movie progresses, her body becomes more and more emaciated until she is just a ghost of who she was physically by the time they shut off life support.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: When Matt learns that Brian Speer, the man his wife had an affair with, works with Holitzer, the man in charge of the proposal to buy the family land that Matt was leaning towards, Matt begins to assume that Speer got close to his wife to get an insider so he could have a leg up in getting Holitzer the land. When confronted about this, Speer quickly denies that there was any ulterior motive in sleeping with her. It was just shallow attraction and sex, nothing deeper (to him at least).
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* NonIdleRich: Compared to the rest of his family, Matt is very responsible with his inheritance and has a successful law practice (which is why he's in charge of handling the sale of the land). However, he is too focused on work at the cost of alienating his wife and having not much of a connection with his daughters.

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