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August: Osage County is a 2013 American black comedy-drama film written by Tracy Letts and based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play by the same name. The film is directed by John Wells and produced by George Clooney, Jean Doumanian, Grant Heslov, Steve Traxler, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein. The ensemble cast is led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
Story Overview:
Sisters Barbara, Karen, and Ivy Weston (Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, and Julianne Nicholson) are called back home when their father, Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), goes missing. They have kept their distance from their mother Violet (Meryl Streep) because she has become addicted to pills and loaded up on prescriptions after getting mouth cancer. They learn that Beverly has drowned himself. The entire family gather for an awkward funeral dinner, led by the high and brutally honest Violet who claims she is just "truth telling". Barbara, the favourite daughter, hunts down all of Violet's pills and gets rid of them in an attempt to force her to sober up. Eventually, we learn of the sisters' back-stories: Barbara and her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) are going through a divorce, Karen barely keeps in contact with the others and her sleazy fiancé Steve (Dermot Mulroney) is attempting to molest Barbara's 14-year-old daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin), and Ivy falls in love with her cousin, "Little" Charles Aiken (Benedict Cumberbatch), which becomes even more controversial when it is revealed that he is her half-brother, the result of an affair between Beverly and his sister-in-law Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale).
Cast:
- 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
- Benedict Cumberbatch as "Little" Charles Aiken
- Juliette Lewis as Karen Weston
- Margo Martindale as Mattie Fae Aiken
- Dermot Mulroney as Steve Heidebrecht
- Julianne Nicholson as Ivy Weston
- Sam Shepard as Beverly Weston
- Misty Upham as Johnna Monevata
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