Customer Ratings & Reviews

Enjoyed this film. The wife likes Clooney as an actor.

Just a great movie. Everyone will love this movie.

This was an awesome movie about stranded people!!!

I think this is one of George Clooneys best films.

Just another good movie to add to our collection!!

This movie lives up to the oscar buzz it received.

The movie is pretty much about dysfunctional relatives. Expected more from the movie with Clooney and Woodley and Beau Bridges in it.

A good movie but not a great movie. There's at least 2 or 3 better Clooney vehicles. My favorite is O Brother Where Art Thou.

I did watch the movie; unfortunately it must not have been noteworthy since I'm unable to recall the story.

I chose this movie because of past reviews of this movie. I also really like to watch George Cloony in movies.

The movie wasn't bad. Really good acting but the movie dragged at times.

This was pretty good. I don't normal go for drama, but I enjoyed it.

It was a pretty good movie, its not one I would watch again though.

If you like George Clooney, you will like it. Simple & good.

The best part of this movie was the beautiful scenery.

Heard great things about it, but was a bit underwhelmed.

"The Descendants" failed to live up to my modest expectations. Disappointing. Well acted, The story is always the most important criterion for any film, and this story is dry and dull. If you want a nice George Clooney chick flick, instead go buy "Intolerable Cruelty" (a masterpiece).

hoped fore more out of this movie. not quite what i expected.

As usual the Hawaiin scenery is beautiful and the acting is good, but not into betrayal story lines.

Two big decisions that could forever affect your family’s future are ahead of you. One of them already made, the other still being debated. Then you’re hit with news you never saw coming and expected to deal with it quietly. Matt King (played by George Clooney) is lawyer in Hawaii and, by virtue of his profession, the sole executor a family trust that controls 25,000 acres of untouched land on Kauai that they will lose relatively soon thanks to the rule against perpetuities. In addition, he is married with two daughters and their mother has been in a coma for six months since a boating accident and the terms of her living will dictate that she will soon be disconnected from life-support. His younger daughter, Scottie (played by Amara Miller), is unaware and is holding out hope that her mother will wake up. His seventeen year-old daughter, Alex (played by Shailene Woodley), is away at a reform school, of sorts, and stills bears a great deal of resentment for her mother as a result of being sent away. She claims the motivation for that decision was her discovery of her mother’s infidelity and says as much to her father. First rejecting the idea, Matt (Clooney) eventually accepts it and then decides to confront the other man in her life, bringing his daughters along under the pretense of a much needed respite. Hawaiian music isn’t really my taste. Perhaps it’s the tone, perhaps it’s that I don’t speak and could never learn the language. On the other hand, it does set the mood beautifully as do the many shots showcasing Hawaii’s natural majesty. Clooney brings the conflict to life with a typically gripping performance and the cast all back him to varying degrees. I will say the part of Brian Speer, the man King (Clooney’s) wife was having an affair with was not very well-acted by Matthew Lillard but it’s a part with little screen time and few lines so it’s forgivable. See this movie.