The Descendants is a movie directed by Alexander Payne in 2011 and based on the book of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings, first published in 2007. The movie features George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie, Grace A. Cruz, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
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Storyline
Matthew Matt King is a Honolulu-based attorney and the sole trustee of a family trust of 25,000 acres of pristine land on Kauai. With the trust expiring in seven years due to the rule against perpetuities, the King clan is pressuring Matt to sell the land for hundreds of millions of dollars. Two close family friends, Kai and Mark Mitchell, tell Matt that Elizabeth was unhappy and loved Brian Speer, a real estate agent, and wanted a divorce.
Movie vs Book
Year
2011
Minutes
115
Movie Rate
7.30
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Descendants
Director: Alexander Payne
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Length: 1h55m
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Year
2007
Pages
283
Book Rate
7.66
S: Goodreads
Book
The Descendants
Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings
Country: USA
First published in: 2007
Length: 283 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“It’s often quite an adversarial relationship between a novelist and the people adapting their work, because a big part of the job is discarding material.”
DAVID NICHOLLS (Writer and Screenwriter)
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