view counter  The Descendants  A father loses paradise but finds
his family in this touching drama  George Clooney, Shailene
Woodley and Amara Miller come together as a family in The
Descendants. <<© Summit Entertainment>>  Matt King (George
Clooney: The Ides of March) is too busy for tragedy. The lawyer
is the family trustee of the last untouched beach in Kauai, and
his cousins are pressuring him to sell. But before King can make
a final decision on which $100 million offer to take, his wife
has a boating accident that lands her in an irreversible coma.
  Now, King must come to terms with that fact and two daughters
he barely knows. The process is even harder than it sounds.   
 Long the absentee parent, King must wrangle young Scottie
(Amara Miller in her screen debut), who acts out whenever she
can, and teenage Alexandra (Shailene Woodley: The Secret Life of
the American Teenager), who’s been into drugs.     King’s life
is made more complicated when Alexandra reveals that mommy
dearest was having an affa