Film review: THE DESCENDANTS from Built for Speed

The Descendants is the latest film for writer/director Alexander Payne who brought us the excellent Sideways back in 2004.  Like Sideways, The Descendants combines painful self-reflection, male mid-life crisis and quirky comedy for a slightly odd but engrossing view of middle class angst.  With The Descendants, Payne also adds potent family drama and a moving story of loss. Despite a

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