{"id":7077,"date":"2011-12-18T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2011-12-18T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:27:31","slug":"the-descendants-2011-alexander-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7077","title":{"rendered":"The Descendants (2011, Alexander Payne)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of like <em>Sideways<\/em> &#8211; a good-enough (but never great) drama about cheating (and now death) with an immensely appealing lead actor (was Giamatti, now Clooney).  A very emotional journey for the characters involved, if not for us.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Forster is going to hit you:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/descendants.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian one-percenter Clooney takes care of 17-yr-old misfit daughter Shailene Woodley (star of an ABC Family drama) and 10-yr-old budding-misfit daughter Amara Miller (plus Shailene&#8217;s surfer-grinning friend).  While his wife is dying in a coma, Clooney tries to find the realtor (Matthew Lillard of <em>Hackers<\/em> and <em>13 Ghosts Remake<\/em>) who&#8217;d been having an affair with her.  More wackiness as Clooney deals with a father-in-law (Robert Forster) who never liked him, and work with his co-inheritor cousins to decide what to do with a huge plot of unspoiled land (obviously they&#8217;ll keep it in the end). Except none of these things are wacky &#8211; it&#8217;s all played for sadness and empathy, which is fine if I&#8217;d been feeling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of like Sideways &#8211; a good-enough (but never great) drama about cheating (and now death) with an immensely appealing lead actor (was Giamatti, now Clooney). A very emotional journey for the characters involved, if not for us. Robert Forster is going to hit you: Hawaiian one-percenter Clooney takes care of 17-yr-old misfit daughter Shailene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1167,1023,1466],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alexander-payne","tag-george-clooney","tag-robert-forster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}