August: Osage County

Name: August: Osage County
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013
Duration: 121 min
Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale

John Wells20132h 1mDrama

Why we chose it

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts sit down at the same table and don’t hold back a single word, in a film Tracy Letts adapted from his own Pulitzer-winning play. Add the summer heat, a handful of pills and a father’s death, and you get an acting tornado.

Synopsis

It’s mid-August in an old house in Osage County, Oklahoma, when the poet Beverly Weston hires a young woman to look after his ailing wife, Violet, who is hooked on pills. Shortly afterwards he disappears without a word. Her three grown daughters and her sister descend on the house, and that evening the whole family sits down to dinner together.