August: Osage County

2013 • 120 minutes

À propos de ce film

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.

Notes et avis

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.

This movie is well acted but it is beyond depressing. I don't get how it was billed as a comedy when this is actually high family drama. There is only one part that is anywhere near the realm of funny and in actuality it is pretty dark but it was the only moral highlight of the film. Plus the screenplay is awful as is the direction. Don't be fooled, you will cry (real genuine sad tears) more than laugh during this movie.

It makes Oklahoman's look like complete psychopaths. Not to say that we are not but we should be given the opportunity to say that ourselves!! Just saying... Anyways, enjoyed the movie and loved all the A-list actors. Worth seeing but not more than once in my opinion. (No offense to the actors in case I meet one of you one day)