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| George Clooney plays a prominent real estate agent with strong family ties to Hawaiian royalty. |
You can’t always choose where you come from or who you’re related to, but at the very least, there’s that given option to make it work. In The Descendants, Matt King (George Clooney) is a prominent real estate agent, whose family life plays second fiddle to his work life. He refers to himself as the backup parent and lacks a strong relationship with either of his two daughters.
But when his wife is comatose from a boating accident, King has to pull together with his children in order to survive the ordeal. And while coming to grips with his wife’s state, Clooney’s character additionally has to manage the status of the last virginal Hawaiian real estate. King’s ancestors married into Hawaiian royalty ages ago, connecting their legacies to that of King Kamehameha I, and as a result, inherited that hefty amount of paradise.
But when his wife is comatose from a boating accident, King has to pull together with his children in order to survive the ordeal. And while coming to grips with his wife’s state, Clooney’s character additionally has to manage the status of the last virginal Hawaiian real estate. King’s ancestors married into Hawaiian royalty ages ago, connecting their legacies to that of King Kamehameha I, and as a result, inherited that hefty amount of paradise.