The Descendants(Movie, 2011)

Name: The Descendants
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2011
Duration: T01:55:00
Rating: 3.4

| 1h 55min | Genres: Comedy, Drama

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 1,224 votes)

The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney in the main role, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller in her film debut, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster, and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011, after premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. Tracing the journey of attorney and land baron Matt King, who struggles with unexpected occurrences in his m... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Descendants

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About The Descendants

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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The Descendants (2011) Trailer(Trailer, 2:14)

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Additional Information

Official websites:

www.foxsearchlight.com

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Hawaii

Plays in: Hawaii

Based on: "The Descendants" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Ad Hominem Enterprises

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 29 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/18/2011 (World premiere: 09/09/2011)

Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, Michael Ontkean, Tom McTigue, Laird Hamilton, Mary Birdsong, Nick Krause

Director: Alexander Payne

Producer: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Jim Taylor

Screenwriter: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Alexander Payne

Film Editor: Kevin Tent

Director of Photography: Phedon Papamichael

Composer: Craig Armstrong

Costume designer: Wendy Chuck

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Les Descendants"

"后裔"

"Los descendientes"

"Oi apogonoi"

"Utódok"

"فرزندان"

"Spadkobiercy"

"Os Descendentes"

"Los Descendientes"

"繼承人生"

Keywords: realtor, trustee, daughter, boating accident, trust fund, estate, teenage daughter, hawaii, father-in-law, wild child, infidelity, beach house, dying mother, wild girl, beautiful girl

Budget: 20,000,000 USD

Revenue: 177,243,185 USD (= 886%)

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The Descendants(Movie, 2011)

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