Alexander Payne
The Descendants
7.3 
8.4A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
- Director: Alexander Payne
- Main Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley
- Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael
- Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Cinema Premiere: December 9, 2011
3 english reviews of The Descendants (2011)
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10 / 10
A major key to the film’s success are the nuances, fluctuating attitudes, loaded looks and tonal inflections among the main characters; the ensemble work is terrific.
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6 / 10
Payne is an unobtrusive director, a filmmaker who lets the script do the walking – in this case, perhaps too much. The characterisation never feels deep enough and he struggles to rein in the comic moments so they don’t jar with the core of the story: a woman lying motionless in a hospital bed.
1 foreign reviews of The Descendants (2011)
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Payne fans will undoubtedly be satisfied, as all the necessary ingredients are there and it is skillfully executed. But at the same time, a little push would have been needed, perhaps a tightening and more direction, to make it truly fantastic.
- Lotta ZachrissonSwedish: moviezine.se »
Box Office
The Descendants has earned a total of 177 243 185 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
Other movies by Alexander Payne
The Holdovers
2023- ⏱️ 133 min
Paris, I Love You
2006-
⏱️ 120 min
7.2
1. Christian Science Monitor
This is a modest marvel of a movie.
- Peter Rainer
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