First Clip Of George Clooney In Alexander Payne S The Descendants

First Clip Of George Clooney In Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants’

By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2011 3:30 pm EST

Thanks to The Film Stage for the heads up. The clip is not embeddable so, instead, click on this image and it’ll bring you right to it.

Here’s the official plot description of the film without spoilers:

If you’re curious who the “He” in “Who is He?” is, well, we’ve spoiled that little gem in a previous post. Here’s the highlight which should be considered a spoiler:

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.

Matt is, a “besieged and wryly introspective attorney” who “wrestles with the decision of whether to keep his swath of valuable inherited land or sell it to a real estate developer.” But more important is Matt’s wife, who is in an irreversible coma, and the fact that Matt has just discovered that she was having an affair with real-estate broker Brian, which leads “him to travel with his two daughters—precocious 10-year-old Scottie and fresh from rehab 17-year-old Alex—from Oahu to Kauai to confront Brian.”