Alexander Payne directs George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Beau Bridges in this comedy drama where a lawyer must look after his two daughters while his wife dies and he has to oversee a huge Hawaiian family land deal.

This hit a lot harder on first watch in the cinema. Now it feels a mite insubstantial. Some neat moments but I’m a little scared that Bobby Carroll in his early thirties was overly seduced by multiple shots of Shailene Woodley in a bikini. You don’t often get that in yer obvious Oscar bait fare. A minor Payne.

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