August: Osage County (2013)
Some people love the theater and some people love the theatre. If you don’t know the difference, you don’t belong in the latter camp. If you don’t know the difference, you’re not going to like August: Osage County, so save yourself two hours and rent something else tonight.
Yet another dysfunctional Southern family drama graces the screen, as siblings, and their various spouses and children, reunite after their father, Sam Shepard, disappears. Julia Roberts and her husband Ewan McGregor are separated and want to keep it a secret. Their daughter Abigail Breslin is learning how to flirt in the wrong way. Dermot Mulroney, although dating Juliette Lewis, is noticing the curves on her niece. Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t all there mentally, and he’s having an incestuous relationship with his cousin, Julianne Nicholson. Margo Martindale, and her husband Chris Cooper also have marital difficulties and disagree on how to handle their son. And finally, the overpowering matriarch, Meryl Streep, has opinions about everything, no filter to make her comments nicer, and failing health.
If that premise really sounds good to you, go ahead and rent it. As much as I didn’t like it, I was able to admit that the acting was top-notch. With all those pros in the cast, of course the acting is going to be top-notch. But do you really want to watch those fantastic actors having to live through those scenarios? If you do, you’re a better man than I. Next up, try Member of the Wedding or Places in the Heart.
More Meryl Streep movies here!
Yet another dysfunctional Southern family drama graces the screen, as siblings, and their various spouses and children, reunite after their father, Sam Shepard, disappears. Julia Roberts and her husband Ewan McGregor are separated and want to keep it a secret. Their daughter Abigail Breslin is learning how to flirt in the wrong way. Dermot Mulroney, although dating Juliette Lewis, is noticing the curves on her niece. Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t all there mentally, and he’s having an incestuous relationship with his cousin, Julianne Nicholson. Margo Martindale, and her husband Chris Cooper also have marital difficulties and disagree on how to handle their son. And finally, the overpowering matriarch, Meryl Streep, has opinions about everything, no filter to make her comments nicer, and failing health.
If that premise really sounds good to you, go ahead and rent it. As much as I didn’t like it, I was able to admit that the acting was top-notch. With all those pros in the cast, of course the acting is going to be top-notch. But do you really want to watch those fantastic actors having to live through those scenarios? If you do, you’re a better man than I. Next up, try Member of the Wedding or Places in the Heart.
More Meryl Streep movies here!