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August: Osage County

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• Comedy
• Drama

• 2013
• John Wells (2)
• 115 mins
• 15

Summary

Comedy drama based on the Pulitzer prize-winning play by Tracy Letts, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The daughters of a bitter matriarch return to the family home in Oklahoma for their father's funeral and bring plenty of emotional baggage with them. Deep-seated resentments soon rise to the surface.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Pill-popping queen bitch Meryl Streep abstractedly deals with her poet husband's suicide in Tracy Letts's adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning stage smash. Meanwhile, Streep's long-suffering family exposes festering wounds, rehash bitter feuds and reveal long-buried secrets in attempts to restore stability at the Oklahoma wake. But this latest episode in the playwright's torn dysfunctional family manual (after Killer Joe and Bug) finds its dark satire on American society blunted into a southern-fried screaming match. It's histrionic rather than involving, evoking more trailer trash Dallas than Tennessee Williams. But the members of the stellar cast are each given their moment to shine in the sweltering spotlight, with Chris Cooper's moving plea over his wife's shabby treatment of their son, Benedict Cumberbatch, trouncing the expected diva fireworks from Oscar nominees Streep and Julia Roberts. Director John Wells makes it eminently watchable, but with every crippling emotional issue from abuse and incest to infidelity covered by rote, it all comes across as risk-averse, over-baked and hollow.

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Cast

rolenameViolet WestonMeryl StreepBarbara WestonJulia RobertsBill FordhamEwan McGregorCharles AikenChris CooperJean FordhamAbigail Breslin"Little" Charles AikenBenedict CumberbatchKaren WestonJuliette LewisMattie Fae AikenMargo MartindaleSteveDermot MulroneyIvy WestonJulianne NicholsonBeverly WestonSam Shepard

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rolenameDirectorJohn Wells (2)

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Entertainment

Released on

2014-01-24

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing, drug abuse.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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