‘The Descendants’ crystallizes Alexander Payne’s heartfelt vision
The Descendants Written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, based on Kaui Hart Hemmings’s novel Directed by Alexander Payne USA, 2011 If it’s true that filmmakers spend their careers repeatedly remaking the same movie, few filmmakers seem to relish the prospect of repetition to the same degree as Alexander Payne. After cutting his …