HAMAKOM'S CINEMA JOURNEY

HAMAKOM's Cinema Journey film series engages people in personal journeys of spiritual growth through movies. Four movies each season portray different perspectives on the season's theme. Our film conversations, either on Zoom or in-person, create an inspiring space for participants to explore and share their experiences of the film - and to discover its underlying life lessons and hidden spiritual truths. Watch the film on your own and then attend the conversation, hosted by Valerie Edwards. You can visit our website here.

(2011 | Alexander Payne, Director | USA | 115 mins | Comedy, drama)

Matt King, a Honolulu-based attorney, is as close to an aristocrat as it is possible for an American to be. His family tree stretches back to the earliest white settlers in Hawaii and includes indigenous royalty as well. It is through this bloodline that Matt is the sole trustee of a family trust of 25,000 acres of pristine land on Kauai. While Matt has ably managed his own finances (as his father did), most of his cousins have squandered their inheritances. With the trust expiring in seven years, the King clan is pressuring Matt to sell the land for hundreds of millions of dollars. But when his wife Elizabeth falls into an irreversible coma after a boating accident, Matt, who has always seen himself as the ‘back-up parent, the understudy’, suddenly becomes not only the primary parent for his two difficult daughters and the one who must execute the challenging terms of his wife’s living will, but also the person who must decide the fate of his family’s legacy.

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