The Descendants

A Honolulu-based attorney named Matt King becomes the trustee of a family trust that consists of valuable land on Kauai and faces pressure from his cousins to sell it, while dealing with his wifes coma, caring for his troubled daughters, discovering her affair, searching for closure with the other man and finding a way to bypass the trusts expiration, ultimately deciding to keep the land, saying goodbye to his wife, and scattering her ashes with his daughters. The Descendants is a 2011 American English-language Comedy Drama film starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Amara Miller, Nick Krause and Joji Yoshida. The movie is based on The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Ad Hominem Enterprises was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Alexander Payne, Jim Burke and Jim Taylor. The Descendants is written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and Kaui Hart Hemmings and it is directed by Alexander Payne. Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. The Descendants was released on 26th January 2012 and takes a screen time of 115 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. The Descendants was made on a budget of $20 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $177 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Cinematography was done by Phedon Papamichael and editing by Kevin Tent At the 2012 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.