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Posts tagged ‘Alexander Payne’

The Holdovers (2023)

Directed by Alexander Payne

4 star

There’s more than a hint of Scrooge in this tale of characters marooned over Christmas at an exclusive New England boarding school.

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The Descendants (2011)

Directed by:  Alexander Payne

2 stars

Matt (George Clooney) is a Hawaiian lawyer and, through inheritance, the sole trustee of a 25,000 acre estate, which will shortly be sold.  After a water-skiing accident leaves his wife in a coma, Matt must hold himself and his family together, meet the competing demands of relatives, islanders and conscience in disposing of the land – and find a way of coming to terms with the revelation that his wife was having an affair. Read more