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Dec 27, 2013 · As the horrifying revelations pile up—including incest, child molestation and mistaken paternity—and the battered participants slink off in despair one by one, "August: Osage County" rightfully boils down to the fates of Violet and Barbara, both left husbandless and damaged by the events. One will be set free by their encounter, the other ...
Jan 10, 2014 · Rated: 2/5 Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review In the realm of performance-driven plays on film, August: Osage County is vital, if over-the-top, and heightened by its star ...
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In the realm of performance-driven plays on film, August: Osage County is vital, if over-the-top, and heightened by its star-studded appeal. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2022
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Dec 26, 2013 · August: Osage County. Directed by John Wells. Drama. R. 2h 1m. By A.O. Scott. Dec. 26, 2013. Sam Shepard kicks off the screen adaptation of “August: Osage County” with a foggy reference to T ...
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By Matt Patches
Posted: Dec 24, 2013 11:00 pm
As quickly as death can bring people together, it can split them apart. August: Osage County, the filmed adaptation of writer Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, captures that fission. Letts' and director John Wells wrangle an ensemble of highly charged characters, zip them through the dramatic equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider, and roll camera on the collision.
In a way, they're playing God; though toxic families exist out there in the natural world, the Westons feel manufactured, spouts of depression, anger, regret, and torment feeling clinical and anticipated. Still, when the base elements consist of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, and Margot Martindale, a spark is inevitable. August: Osage County is a failed experiment with sporadic reactions worth witnessing.
It's been years since the Westons were a family. Patriarch Beverly (Sam Shepard), a former poet, finds solace in the bottle, an escape from the verbal attacks of his cancer-stricken, pill-popping, maddening wife, Violet (Streep). They coexist at either ends of their Midwestern home, a welcome darkness draped across what once was. When Beverly goes missing one morning, life implodes.
Violet reluctantly congregates the clan: her rambunctious sister Mattie (Martindale) and her husband Charlie (Cooper), her youngest daughter Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), the only sibling to stick around town, the middle daughter Karen (Juliette Lewis), a wild child who invites her equally scummy fiancee Steve (Durmot Mulroney) to tag along, and Barbara (Roberts), the oldest of the Weston children and the one harboring the most resentment. Like her mother, Barbara has life all figured out, despite her crumbling marriage to Bill (Ewan McGregor) and a daughter, Jean (Abigail Breslin), recoiling in response.
August: Osage County is a bombardment of feelings, never holding the audiences hand or taking the easy route while never unearthing anything profound enough to make the journey worth it. At its best, it's a great actors chewing up scenery. At it's worst, it's a cacophony of famous people screaming. Audiences may see enough of that during their holi...
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Dec 25, 2013 · Sep 20, 2014. Adapted from the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, August: Osage County is what you expect in an Oscar nominated film. The tale of the troubled Weston family told over the course of a few weeks in Oklahoma as a disjointed family comes together when the sole male and patriarch goes missing.
Jan 26, 2014 · August: Osage County – review This article is more than 10 years old Meryl Streep heads a fine ensemble cast let down only by dowdy direction in this adaptation of Tracy Letts's play
