Un proprietario terriero cerca di ristabilire i legami con le due figlie in seguito al grave incidente nautico subito dalla moglie.Un proprietario terriero cerca di ristabilire i legami con le due figlie in seguito al grave incidente nautico subito dalla moglie.Un proprietario terriero cerca di ristabilire i legami con le due figlie in seguito al grave incidente nautico subito dalla moglie.
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- 65 vittorie e 148 candidature totali
Jon McManus
- Cousin Six
- (as Jonathan McManus)
Trama
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- QuizWhen Matt King describes his inherited wealth, he says, "I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father; you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing." This is based on a well-known quote from billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a 1986 Fortune magazine interview. "Setting up his heirs with a lifetime supply of food stamps just because they came out of the right womb can be harmful for them and is an antisocial act. To him the perfect amount to leave children is 'enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.'"
- BlooperThe resort models shown could not be built. Kaua'i's "coconut tree" building law states that new construction cannot be more than 4 stories tall.
But this Princeville hotel is a real hotel because it's built on a hill. The Top floor is at ground level and the hotel is built with multiple stories going down to the Ocean.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episodio #2.17 (2011)
- Colonne sonoreKa Makani Ka'ili Aloha
Written by Matthew Kane
Arranged and Performed by Gabby Pahinui
Courtesy of Panini Records
Recensione in evidenza
Alexander Payne hasn't made a film from the director's chair since his incredible Sideways back in 2004. Seven years later, he finally returns, and with The Descendants, he returns with a bang.
Like Sideways, his screenplay (co-written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) nails the tone right on the head. It has to balance out three tricky narratives in the film (Matt King's self-crisis, his comatose wife's affair with another man before her boating accident, and a land deal he's reported to make), and without the proper guidance it needed, along with Payne's own confidant direction, it could have faltered. Thankfully, it balances out heavy themes and complicated emotions in uncommon detail.
The characters in this movie are many, complicated, and sorrowful in their own unique ways. Matt King was a perfect role for George Clooney. He keeps his composure, but we can still see a very heavy, filtered sorrow beneath the surface. Shailene Woodley's character (Woodley, by the way, gives one of the year's best performances) begins with a rebellious, even angry sadness, but we can see her develop over the course of the film, gaining a strong maturity beyond her years. Judy Greer and Robert Forster are each given a few spare scenes, and they make every second of their screen time count.
It really is an emotional ride, even depressing sometimes, but I'm surprised by the occasional review I read where critics say they didn't feel the emotion to be sincere. In my opinion, the emotions of the film never hit a single false note. I don't think just anybody could have made this movie the way it is. This isn't a typical drama, the movie's genre is Payne, and he knows exactly what he's doing.
***1/2 out of ****
Like Sideways, his screenplay (co-written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) nails the tone right on the head. It has to balance out three tricky narratives in the film (Matt King's self-crisis, his comatose wife's affair with another man before her boating accident, and a land deal he's reported to make), and without the proper guidance it needed, along with Payne's own confidant direction, it could have faltered. Thankfully, it balances out heavy themes and complicated emotions in uncommon detail.
The characters in this movie are many, complicated, and sorrowful in their own unique ways. Matt King was a perfect role for George Clooney. He keeps his composure, but we can still see a very heavy, filtered sorrow beneath the surface. Shailene Woodley's character (Woodley, by the way, gives one of the year's best performances) begins with a rebellious, even angry sadness, but we can see her develop over the course of the film, gaining a strong maturity beyond her years. Judy Greer and Robert Forster are each given a few spare scenes, and they make every second of their screen time count.
It really is an emotional ride, even depressing sometimes, but I'm surprised by the occasional review I read where critics say they didn't feel the emotion to be sincere. In my opinion, the emotions of the film never hit a single false note. I don't think just anybody could have made this movie the way it is. This isn't a typical drama, the movie's genre is Payne, and he knows exactly what he's doing.
***1/2 out of ****
- Ryan_MYeah
- 17 gen 2012
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- Luoghi delle riprese
- Hanalei, Kaua'i, Hawaii, Stati Uniti(Matt & Hugh meeting at Tahiti Nui Restaurant, Speers beach cottage at 5032 Weke Road)
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- Budget
- 20.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 82.584.160 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 1.190.096 USD
- 20 nov 2011
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 177.243.185 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 55 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1
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