His wife in a coma, husband discovers she had an affair - he goes to confront the lover.
Descendants is a quieter film, trying to amplify the subtleties of the luxury problems of an upper-class family in Hawaii with native forefathers. Although it has a nice story, at first I was confused by the fact that George Clooney was cast. Although he does well what he does it took me more than an hour to forget his larger-than-life persona with all the clichés that go with it. Shaylene Woodley was fantastic, had no idea she was already famous. Darn.
Once I got around that, though, I could really enjoy the film. Going through the second time, I am interested in how the different stories interweave.
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Matt & Wife |
Matt & Daughters |
Matt & Family |
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00:02 |
Wife is in a coma |
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00:03 |
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Scottie has problems at school and Matt needs to apologize |
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00:07 |
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Will he/and the family sell the piece of ground? For a billion
dollars? (Yes) |
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00:11 |
Wife's condition is deteriorating. Shall he switch her off? |
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00:14 |
Kai and Wife are with Elizabeth, pretending that she will be
ok. Will he tell them? |
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00:15 |
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Spends time with Scottie. Will he tell her? Troy comes over and
in their fight Scottie runs away. Matt DECIDES to go and get her sister Alexandra. |
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00:19 |
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The get to Alex, but she is drunk in the park. They take her
home. |
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00:21 |
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Confrontation with Alex and Matt. |
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00:23 |
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Matt is upset and tells Alex about her mom. |
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00:27 |
Alex tells him, that she was cheating on him. |
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00:29 |
Upset, Matt RUNS to Mark&Kai's house in his slippers. |
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00:31 |
Matt confronts them with the his wife's cuckoldery. He gets the
man's name. |
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00:35 |
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He meets Sid, Alex' 'boyfriend'. |
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00:36 |
Grandfather's not too pleased about anything.
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He scolds on all of them. |
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00:41 |
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Sid and Matt don't exactly hit it off, but Matt's confused. |
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00:43 |
He sees the lover's (Brian Speer) house. |
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00:44 |
Matt pretends to be a house buyer and calls Speer's office. |
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00:45 |
Scolds at his wife. |
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00:48 |
Family fight in front of Elizabeth. |
Dito |
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00:50 |
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Scottie has no real friends, brings a schoolmate to “proof”
condition of mother. |
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00:52 |
He tells all the friends that Elizabeth will die. |
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00:55 |
He decides to go to Kauai, to confront Speer in person. |
Alex will go with him → so will Scottie. |
(The land they're selling is in Kauai... tadaa) |
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00:56 |
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Bumps into cousin at the Kauai airport. We hear that the family
is divided about selling. They go and see the land. |
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1:01 |
Speer is not in the expected hotel, but somewhere close-by in a
cottage. They go wandering, looking for him on the beach... |
...while Matt shares stories about Elizabeth with his kids. |
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1:04 |
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Scottie seems to have loads of problems Matt never realized. |
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1:06 |
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Matt and Sid sort of bond.
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1:09 |
Matt runs into Speer while beach-jogging, follows him to his
house. Speer has a wife and kids. |
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1:11 |
On the beach he purposely starts a conversation with the wife. |
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The owner of Speer's cottage is in Matt's family. |
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1:15 |
Ta-Daa! His wife's lover might be an important business
associate. |
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Speer is actually part of of the business deal for selling the
land locally. Speer is VERY ambitious. |
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1:18 |
Let's go and knock on Speer's door. |
Alex come/not come? |
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1:20 |
He meets with Speer! Who is not amused. |
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1:22 |
Matt and Brian get to talk. He tells him that he can say
goodbye to her at the house.
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1:28 |
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They break the news to Scottie, finally with some help. Matt
can't do it alone. |
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1:29 |
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Grandfather comes to say goodbye. |
Presses Matt about the sale... |
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1:33 |
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Start of the family meeting. Matt's NOT signing. |
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1:38 |
Waiting for Elizabeth to die |
Waiting |
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1:40 |
Julie shows up, 'forgiving' elizabeth |
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1:43 |
Matt says goodbye.
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Everybody says goodbye. |
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1:46 |
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Ashes into the sea. |
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1:48 |
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Watch TV together. |
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