A father navigates family secrets and an uncertain future with wry humor and deep melancholy.
Intimate and darkly comic, with dry wit. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Not on a US subscription service as of Oct 27, 2026.
Some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence, about what an R should carry.
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With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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