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August: Osage County - Movie Review
Director: John Wells
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 120 minutes
Release date: December 27, 2013
(United States)
Cast:
- Margo Martindale as Mattie Fae Aiken,
- Sam Shepard as Beverly Weston,
- Misty Upham as Johnna Monevata,
- Juliette Lewis as Karen Weston,
- Dermot Mulroney as Steve Huberbrecht,
- Julianne Nicholson as Ivy Weston,
- Benedict Cumberbatch as "Little" Charles Aiken,
- Meryl Streep as Violet Weston,
- Julia Roberts as Barbara Weston-Fordham,
- Ewan McGregor as Bill Fordham,
- Chris Cooper as Charles Aiken,
- Abigail Breslin as Jean Fordham
Review: Shame and scandal in the family are always excellent
ingredients for a solid film, and there are many things here in "August Osage
County."
Based on a play by Tracy Letts is a film based on the characters, whose plot revolves around the dysfunctional family in Weston August Osage County
His three daughters Barbara (Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) and Karen (Juliette Lewis) on their own, writer and poet Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard) is found seeking solace in the bottle while trying to be grumpy "cancer patient escape, pill-popping wife, "Violet (Meryl Streep). They coexist driving his own life, until one day, Beverly, without notice or publicity moves outdoors.
After half Violeta and reluctantly informs his daughters and his family, including his sister Mattie crowded and noisy (Margo Martindale) and her husband Charlie (Chris Cooper) to the disappearance of her husband to collect.
Each room has its own grief luggage, pain and fear. Barbara, the oldest comes with her husband before the divorce bill (Ewan McGregor) and his teenage daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Karen's daughter comes with her fiance Steve scummy (Dermot Mulroney). He is also the cousin, "Little Charlie and the maid.
Once locked together, their exploits fear exposing fear and resentment that each family member ports in themselves and each other. The dining table is the battlefield where are discussed and issues, problems and secrets are destroyed.
Each character, from oldest to youngest is well defined with each showing an important and crucial time of their assignment. Nature, tone and graph of each personality is archetypal and follows a dynamic sequence that opens the film with remarkable performances Streep.
If it is fascinating to observe the layers of this family developed with brilliant performance of main couple, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, the climax does not seem natural, borderline stiff and over-the-top, a little disappointing as these both ladies are natural actors.
Juliette Lewis and Karen brings a lightness and fun much needed to fight for help, but their reactions are often distasteful, misleading her act like a stereotypical bimbo while Julianne Nicholson Ivy, who endured innocent and wait patiently for their defense when the conflict inevitably leads his family seems to be lost in the stuffing.
As a matriarchal family, you realize that men are relegated to the background and wasted.
The concise dialogues dealing characteristics and genes are filled with a vocabulary all is not free flowing due to frustrations of the characters and good intentions. Evoking horror, disgust, sadness and pity.
The camera captures all the nuances of elegant mood swings and a very decent quality production, director John Wells managed to get this game by giving a life.
Based on a play by Tracy Letts is a film based on the characters, whose plot revolves around the dysfunctional family in Weston August Osage County
His three daughters Barbara (Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) and Karen (Juliette Lewis) on their own, writer and poet Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard) is found seeking solace in the bottle while trying to be grumpy "cancer patient escape, pill-popping wife, "Violet (Meryl Streep). They coexist driving his own life, until one day, Beverly, without notice or publicity moves outdoors.
After half Violeta and reluctantly informs his daughters and his family, including his sister Mattie crowded and noisy (Margo Martindale) and her husband Charlie (Chris Cooper) to the disappearance of her husband to collect.
Each room has its own grief luggage, pain and fear. Barbara, the oldest comes with her husband before the divorce bill (Ewan McGregor) and his teenage daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Karen's daughter comes with her fiance Steve scummy (Dermot Mulroney). He is also the cousin, "Little Charlie and the maid.
Once locked together, their exploits fear exposing fear and resentment that each family member ports in themselves and each other. The dining table is the battlefield where are discussed and issues, problems and secrets are destroyed.
Each character, from oldest to youngest is well defined with each showing an important and crucial time of their assignment. Nature, tone and graph of each personality is archetypal and follows a dynamic sequence that opens the film with remarkable performances Streep.
If it is fascinating to observe the layers of this family developed with brilliant performance of main couple, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, the climax does not seem natural, borderline stiff and over-the-top, a little disappointing as these both ladies are natural actors.
Juliette Lewis and Karen brings a lightness and fun much needed to fight for help, but their reactions are often distasteful, misleading her act like a stereotypical bimbo while Julianne Nicholson Ivy, who endured innocent and wait patiently for their defense when the conflict inevitably leads his family seems to be lost in the stuffing.
As a matriarchal family, you realize that men are relegated to the background and wasted.
The concise dialogues dealing characteristics and genes are filled with a vocabulary all is not free flowing due to frustrations of the characters and good intentions. Evoking horror, disgust, sadness and pity.
The camera captures all the nuances of elegant mood swings and a very decent quality production, director John Wells managed to get this game by giving a life.
