Alexander Payne
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
2) Downsizing
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A couple with financial problems decides to undergo the procedure of shrinking their bodies to a height of five inches to be able to live an easy and care-free life but the wife changes her mind after her husband has already been downsized and now he has to build his new life alone.
3) Sideways
Formats
Description
Miles and Jack, reaching middle-age and disappointed at the state of their lives, travel together through wine country a week before Jack is to be married in search of adventure and meaning in their lives.
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.