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The film is Alexander Payne's first film since 2004's Sideways and has been extremely well received by critics, with particular praise given to Clooney's performance and the well written screenplay (partly written by [[{{Community}} Jim Rash]], [[HiddenDepths who knew?]]). It would eventually go on to win the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 84th Academy Awards.
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The film is Alexander Payne's first film since 2004's Sideways and has been extremely well received by critics, with particular praise given to Clooney's performance and the well written screenplay (partly written by [[{{Community}} Jim Rash]], [[HiddenDepths who knew?]]). It would eventually go on to win the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 84th Academy Awards.\n
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* AcademyAward: It won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 84th Academy Awards. Much like Alexander Payne's [[{{Sideways}} last film]].
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* AlohaHawaiiAlohaHawaii: Played with; although there's lots of beautiful scenery (it's still Hawaii), it mainly focuses on the people who actually live there, for whom life isn't always like what the tourists would expect.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Elizabeth had an affair with [[ScoobyDoo Shaggy???]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Elizabeth had an affair with [[ScoobyDoo Shaggy???]
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''The Descendants'' is a 2011 comedy film, directed by AlexanderPayne and based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars 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.
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''The Descendants'' is a 2011 comedy dramedy film, directed by AlexanderPayne and based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars 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.
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** Sid, who finds Matt's mother-in-law's dementia quite hilarious, and gets a punch in the face for the trouble. He's also not malicious, however -- just very, ''very'' stupid.
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Played with; Matt angrily shouts down one of his wife's friends when she tries to justify the affair with the "she was lonely" excuse, and while it's suggested she did have sympathetic motives to some degree it's also made clear that her actions were still selfish and damaging to her family.
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''The Descendents'' Descendants'' is a 2011 comedy film, directed by AlexanderPayne and based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars 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.
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* TheUnfairSex: {{Defied|Trope}} after we learn that Elizabeth cheated on Matt.
-->'''Kai''': Your marriage...she was lonely.
-->'''Matt''': So what, you're gonna go spouting cliches about women now? Nothing's ever a woman's fault, is it?
-->'''Kai''': Your marriage...she was lonely.
-->'''Matt''': So what, you're gonna go spouting cliches about women now? Nothing's ever a woman's fault, is it?
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* DysfunctionJunction: Matt is a workaholic who can't connect with his kids; Elizabeth, before her accident, cheated on Matt, was a self-absorbed adrenaline junkie (and was implied to have a lot of other problems as well); Alex drinks, used to do drugs and [[ReallyGetsAround really get around]], and has issues believing her parents, or at least her mother, don't care about her; and Scottie is involved in (at least mild) cyberbullying, has a friend who throws parties involving porn videos, and shows pictures of her mother (in a coma) to her class.
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* TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior: Scottie's friend who throws parties where she shows off her father's porn stash.
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* DuelingMovies: The film has many similarities to 2009's UpInTheAir. Since both have been critical successes (and moderate commercial successes), it doesn't seem to bother anyone.
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* ShoutOut: At the end the family watches March Of The Penguins together.
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* ShoutOut: At the end the family watches March ''March Of The Penguins together.Penguins'' together.
** Bonus: the scene that they are watching features MorganFreeman narrating about how Antarctica was once a tropical paradise, and slowly moved south and became covered in ice as the tectonic plates shifted. Matt and his kids live in the tropical paradise of {{Hawaii}}. Nothing lasts forever...
** Bonus: the scene that they are watching features MorganFreeman narrating about how Antarctica was once a tropical paradise, and slowly moved south and became covered in ice as the tectonic plates shifted. Matt and his kids live in the tropical paradise of {{Hawaii}}. Nothing lasts forever...
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Sid might not be the smartest guy in the world, but he is a genuinely nice guy and does actually help out with the situation quite a bit.
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* SceneryPorn: Even the most basic shots are gorgeous to look at. It is Hawaii after all.
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** Matt even {{Lampshades}} this in his narration:
--> Don't be fooled. In Hawaii some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.
--> Don't be fooled. In Hawaii some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.
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* BlatantLies: Several times people comment that they're sure that Elizabeth will pull through and Matt agrees [[spoiler: even though he's been told she's being taken off life support and will die soon.]]
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* ComedicSociopathy: A weird example. Matt isn't intentionally cruel or unfeeling, he just literally has no idea how to connect with his kids.
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* IdleRich: Matt and his family are descended from the first white land owners of Hawaii. While Matt has left almost all of his money in a trust, the rest of his family are deep in debt and are dead set on selling the rest of the land to pay off their debts. By the end [[spoiler: Matt has [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething changed his mind]]]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Matt has a moment like this with [[spoiler: Sid]] of all people.
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* ShoutOut: At the end the family watches March Of The Penguins together.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Cousin Hugh is a friendly and nice guy (he's played by BeauBridges for god's sake). He also makes it clear that if Matt [[spoiler: doesn't sell the land, he will come after him legally).legally]].
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* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Matt encourages lots of people to visit and speak to Elizabeth while she is in the hospital, and before bringing in the kids he has one last fight with her. Played with in that [[spoiler:Matt already knows for some time that Elizabeth's condition will not improve, and in fact will only decline as time passes, so her death is inevitable. He still publicly speaks in hopeful terms for most of the movie, mostly to avoid awkward conversations]].
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