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The Descendants

film by Payne [2011]

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George Clooney
Gravity and later films
In the seriocomic The Descendants (2011), Clooney starred as an indifferent father forced to reassess his life after his wife suffers a coma-inducing accident. He earned a Golden Globe for the role. In 2013 he and Sandra Bullock portrayed astronauts in Gravity, a sci-fi drama about a space…
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In the seriocomic The Descendants (2011), Clooney starred as an indifferent father forced to reassess his life after his wife suffers a coma-inducing accident. He earned a Golden Globe for the role. In 2013 he and Sandra Bullock portrayed astronauts in Gravity, a sci-fi drama about a space…
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Alexander Payne
…returned to feature-film directing with The Descendants (2011), which he adapted (with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) from Kaui Hart Hemmings’s novel. The film, set in Hawaii, starred George Clooney as a well-to-do lawyer reevaluating his life and his family relationships, especially with his daughter (Shailene Woodley), after an accident…
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…returned to feature-film directing with The Descendants (2011), which he adapted (with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) from Kaui Hart Hemmings’s novel. The film, set in Hawaii, starred George Clooney as a well-to-do lawyer reevaluating his life and his family relationships, especially with his daughter (Shailene Woodley), after an accident…
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Shailene Woodley
Career breakthroughs: The Secret Life of the American Teenager and The Descendants
…breakthrough appearance in the film The Descendants as a teenager who struggles to keep her family together after a tragic accident leaves her mother in a coma. Critic A.O. Scott gave Woodley a rave review in The New York Times, writing that her performance was “one of the toughest, smartest,…
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…breakthrough appearance in the film The Descendants as a teenager who struggles to keep her family together after a tragic accident leaves her mother in a coma. Critic A.O. Scott gave Woodley a rave review in The New York Times, writing that her performance was “one of the toughest, smartest,…
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