After debuting the poster earlier this week, we have the trailer for Alexander Payne’s highly anticipated upcoming drama The Descendents. His first feature since 2004′s Sideways, in which he picked up the Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Oscar, the drama is based on Kaui Hart Hemmings novel. The Descendants stars George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel, and Patricia Hastie. Check out the trailer below via Apple. It looks to be another solid, if a bit lowkey, drama from the acclaimed director.
Synopsis:
From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii, THE DESCENDANTS is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family’s land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
The Descendants hits theaters December 16th, 2011.