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The Descendants
2011 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Alexander Payne
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
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I am perplexed by your comment about overseas release dates. There has been an absolutely massive compression in release dates in the past 5 years. Most obvious blockbusters are now globally released, and the spread for smaller films has also been contracting.
Avengers was released overseas prior to the US release. A film like The Descendants was released 4 weeks early in NY/LA, and then foreign releases were only 6 weeks after the US release. That is insanely fast for a movie that could potentially have never made it out of NY/LA.
This is a bit silly to say 'Hollywood' is trying to destroy the internet, yet somehow these independents are 100% separate from all that is evil and it is that black and white.
Note most of these films are from small studios, but the majority of these are distributed by Sony Pictures Classics or Fox Searchlight, etc, which if evil 'Hollywood' didn't get involved most of these pics wouldn't be able to be seen at your local town cinema, let alone maybe even get the money to be produced.
So to say that Transformers 3 is Hollywood because it sucks, yet The Descendants is isolated on it's own non-evil island away from Hollywood is a bit silly.
This reminds me of a short film called "Descendants" http://vimeo.com/8642276