August: Osage County

2013 • 120 minutes

About this movie

Based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer® Prize- and Tony® Award-winning play of the same name, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in and the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Directed by John Wells (THE COMPANY MEN), the film features an all-star cast led by Golden Globe®-Nominees Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, including Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, and Misty Upham.

Ratings and reviews

Its funny if you've never lived this kind of life if you've never been a poor child of an alcoholic if you don't come from dysfunctional people you think the story is extravagant and overacted! Basically this was my life,I came from very ignorant,poor,racist,pedophile,alcoholics,insest,abusive people! You have to rise above it!! My sister and myself were the first people to go to college in my family going back 100 years. Not everybody has that Norman Rockwell life and I'm telling you this is is true to life this family is boring compared to the white trash I come from!! As a 40 year old man this is why I did not have children so they wouldn't have to put up with my crap and baggage!!

I laughed a lot giggled a little & even teared up a bit now and then... seriously.worth watching, legal drug addiction is just as serious as illegal addiction, maybe even more so because the person isn't tempting addiction but caught while trying to elevate some sort of legitimate pain.... I truly feel bad for those people.....enjoy with popcorn, and a good friend with Streep and Roberts how could you lose

It is not a comedy unless you find a drug addict mother dying of cancer while his alcoholic husband commits suicide funny. Even when you realize is a huge drama you don't even like it. The production is awful, they do not respect the age of the actors: a mother in her 70s in the 2010s has pictures of her wedding that look like a wedding before WWII, her life is a mess but she plays a mint press of Clapton's Slowhand on a well conserved Technics turntable among other things. Overacted.