August: Osage County
2013 · Movie · R · 121 min · ★ 6.9 · 63% critics
The story follows the strong-willed daughters of a family whose lives have pulled them in different directions. When a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest home they grew up in, old tensions resurface around the dysfunctional mother who shaped them.
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Details
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-12-26
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 63/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (1,592 votes)
- Box office
- $74,200,000
- Budget
- $25,000,000
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy intense, dysfunctional family meltdowns and standout performances in a domestic, pressure-cooker setting; Not for you if you want a feel-good drama or prefer something less exhausting than The Savages or Divorce.
Pros: powerhouse ensemble; intense family drama; raw human emotion | Cons: exhausting overacting; dark and uncomfortable; uneven pacing
Themes
- suicide
- funeral
- southern usa
- drug addiction
- oklahoma
- based on play or musical
- family secrets
- dysfunctional family
- cancer
- suicide of father
- midwest
- alcoholic father
- +12 more
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 2014 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2014 · nominated
Cast & crew
Meryl Streep
as Violet Weston
Julia Roberts
as Barbara Weston
Julianne Nicholson
as Ivy Weston
Juliette Lewis
as Karen Weston
Ewan McGregor
as Bill Fordham
Margo Martindale
as Mattie Fae Aiken
Abigail Breslin
as Jean Fordham
Chris Cooper
as Charlie Aiken
Dermot Mulroney
as Steve Huberbrecht
Benedict Cumberbatch
as Little Charles Aiken
Directed by John Wells