Alexander Payne’s The Descendants has just about everything you need for a male midlife-crisis movie, and more: A big plot of unspoiled family land about to be sold off to developers, sullen teenagers, a wife in a coma. Payne, in his first full-length feature since the 2004 Sideways , pulls out all the stops, including casting George Clooney, an actor who’s aging beautifully but who nonetheless, thankfully, has allowed himself to look his age.
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Letter From Toronto: Descendants Overloaded with Calculation; Take Shelter Overloaded with Michael Shannon
