There are two light-hearted dramas coming this fall that mark the return of two major directors. One is Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, who hasn’t directed a film since Sideways in 2004. The other is We Bought a Zoo from Cameron Crowe, whose last film was Elizabethtown in 2005. We have a new set of images from each today.
Above and below you can see George Clooney and Shailene Woodley in film which follows the father finding out his wife (Patricia Hastie) “goes into a coma and he learns that she’d been having an affair.” The images come from EW and you can see the trailer here if you haven’t yet.
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.
We also have two new photos from We Bought a Zoo, which feature Matt Damon, tigers, zebras, and Scarlett Johansson. A trailer is expected shortly for the film also starring Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Angus MacFadyen, and John Michael Higgins.
Synopsis:
“We Bought a Zoo,” based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
We Bought a Zoo hits theaters on December 23rd, 2011.