The Descendants -Scenic Hawaii, gorgeous Houses and George Clooney

I'm looking forward to watching The Descendants, filmed in Hawaii on Oahu and Kauai, with gorgeous scenery and houses, and George Clooney!


Clooney won a Golden Globe for his performance as Matt King, a wealthy attorney who with his cousins inherited vast acres of land in Hawaii from ancestors (hence the name The Descendants). The story is based on the best-selling novel by Hawaii writer Kaui Hart Hemmings. It's a family drama with no happy ending (I hear). After King's wife is severely injured in a boating accident and in comatose condition, he finds out that she had been having an affair.


King also tries to reconnect with and take care of his two daughters in his wife’s absence. In the film his home is in Nuuanu, a 15-minute car ride from Waikiki.


Here's the scene where King arrives at his best friends house, after running down the hill from his home. Director Alexander Payne supposedly worked hard to get the homeowner, Tiare Finney, to rent her historic colonial-revival house for filming. At the end it all worked out, Finney even got a small part as one of King’s cousins, Connie..., so did her goat, playing himself. See him standing in the yard?


For the filming nothing in the interiors was changed. You see tropical art, eclectic memorabilia, and there's a surfboard in the corner too.


Part of the storyline involves King, and his daughters, traveling from Honolulu to Hanalei Bay on Kauai to find his wife’s lover. I think that's the funny part!


King tracks down the lover...


...vacationing in a cottage on Nalu Beach. The cottage used in the scene is part of an estate at Kauiokalani on Hanalei Bay. The main house as well as several cottages can be rented.


Here's a peek inside one of the cottages via Hanalei Land Company.


This is not the first time beautiful Hanalei Bay is featured in a movie. Mostly though it is used as a stand-in for someplace else. Not in this movie!


"And in the evening, sometimes they would light up the street with their huge movie lights", says Rose who lives in the area, see The Descendants in Hawaii.


This picture from a scene on the beach made me wonder about the fog. So here's a little weather trivia as discussed on my Facebook Page. It gets very foggy there... and it's actually called "vog"....volcanic smog. It's the ashes from the active volcanoes mixing with smog.


And another stunning scenery! This is the huge tract of land the King family supposedly owned. It’s an actual private ranch on Kauai’s southeast shore, adjacent to the Huleia National Wildlife Refuge. You can read all about here: Where was George Clooney's Kauai Ranch in The Descendants.

Have you seen the movie? Will you watch it?

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