When his wife is involved in a boating accident placing her in a coma, Matt King (Clooney) has to take on the role as ever present parent in his two dysfunctional daughters’ lives, Alexandra and Scottie, a role which he has not been used to due to being always so busy at work. Along with his domestic crises, he also has the pressure of his family’s heritage resting on his shoulders as he has to make a decision on whether they need to sell the land or not.
The audience in drawn in further to Matt’s growing turmoil when things take a turn for the worse with his wife and he is informed that she’s not going to live. He has to deliver the news to his family and friends but what he doesn’t expect is to receive news in return that his soon to be dead wife was having an affair on him.
The movie is nominated for four Oscars, including a Best Actor nod for George Clooney, and rightly so. George Clooney draws us in and lets us share in his emotional turmoil yet keeps us on the edge of sinking into a depressive state by delivering a sense of humour which is threaded throughout the telling of the story brilliantly done by director Alexander Payne who is also nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.
The Descendants is one of the best movies of 2011 and deserving of its Oscar nomination.
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