‘Descendants’ screens today at MPL

“The Descendants,” screening Thursday at Mesa Public Library, is the kind of film that smart people wish would win awards. 

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It’s not sensationalistic or gratuitous. It’s not one easy laugh after another, one car chase after another, one famous person after another saying dumb, obvious things with their multi-million-dollar voices. 

And in fact, the film did win an Oscar for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for four others: Best Achievement in Directing (Alexander Payne); Best Achievement in Film Editing (Kevin Tent); Best Motion Picture; and Best Actor (George Clooney). 

Those are pretty nice kudos for a slow building plot about a self-proclaimed “back-up parent” (Matt King, played by Clooney) trying with painful-to-watch ineptness to keep his family together after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

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