Family Dynamic

From left: Shailene Woodley, George Clooney, Amara Miller and Nick Krause on Kauai in a scene from The Descendants. Clooney stars as Matt King, a lawyer coping with his wife's coma, his estranged children and relatives pushing him to sell family real estate. The family drama is director Alexander Payne's first film since 2004's Sideways, and was adapted from a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.