RUNNING TIME: 1:55
RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2012
STARRING: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Mary Birdsong, Nick Krause, Judy Greer
DIRECTOR: Alexander Payne
PRODUCER(S): Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
WRITER(S): Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Alexander Payne's seriocomic The Descendants, an adaptation of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, stars George Clooney as Matt King, a middle age Hawaiian who runs a trust responsible for millions of dollars worth of untouched real estate that has been passed down to him and various cousins. He is preparing to sell the area, and make millions for everyone in the trust, when his wife suffers a severe head trauma during a boat race. As he attempts to get her affairs in order, he learns that she had been having an affair. With his two daughters in tow, along with his oldest daughter's doofus boyfriend, Matt sets off to confront the man who made him a cuckold. Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, and Robert Forster co-star. The Descendants screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.