Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 13, 2012
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Loved by critics and audience members, The Descendants scored a worthy Academy Award and two Golden Globes, including Best Picture.
From writer/director Alexander Payne (Sideways), the movie stars George Clooney (The Ides of March) as businessman Matt King, who has a lot on his plate: he’s on deadline to bring his extended family (including Beau Bridges, Columbus Circle) together to sell their land in Hawaii, his wife (Patricia Hastie, Princess Kaiulani) is in a coma after a boating accident and his daughter’s (Shailene Woodley, TV’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager) angry because she knows her mom was cheating on her dad.
The cast also includes Judy Greer (Barry Munday), Matthew Lillard (Spooner), Nick Krause (How to Eat Fried Worms) and newcomer Amara Miller.
Rated R, The Descendants is based on the best-selling novel
The comedy/drama movie grossed a tidy $76 million when it was in theaters.
The DVD contains three featurettes:
- “Everybody Loves George”
- “Working With Alexander”
- and “Hawaiian Style.”
The Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack includes those as well as these special features:
- deleted scenes with introductions by the director
- featurette “The Real Descendants”
- “Casting”
- “Working With Water”
- “Waiting for the Light”
- silent film The World Parade — Hawaii
- “A Conversation With George Clooney and Alexander Payne”
- three music videos: “Will I Ever See You Again,” “Postcards From Paradise” and “Honolulu’s Whisper”
- and a downloadable digital copy of the film.
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