I couldn’t wait to put up my weekly film review post this
week so it’s a bit early but WOW! Just wow. Yesterday I went to the theatre and
saw August: Osage County. I went in with high expectation, I mean anything with
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts could never be anything less than extraordinary,
but my expectations were met and far exceeded. As a self-proclaimed movie
addict and connoisseur, I must admit that it really says something when I say
that this is honestly the BEST movie I’ve ever seen. And after Silver Linings
Playbook set my movie standards at an all-time high I never thought I would
find a movie better, but it has been found!
The film is a dark comedy that masters family dysfunction.
When the pill addict mother, Violet Weston’s (played by Meryl Streep) alcoholic
husband Beverly (Sam Shepard), goes missing she calls upon her
three strong willed daughters to help her cope. When the daughters, Barbara
(Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), and Karen (Juliette Lewis) return to
their rural Oklahoma home, “shit hits the fan”. The film’s plot twists are
around every corner and the family tension reaches sky high; all the while
their already intolerable mother grows more and more hostile.
This is the most superb cast to come together in quite some
time and not one performance could be deemed anything less than exceptional. The
two shining stars of the show however, and probably obviously, are the genius
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The relationship between this mother and
daughter duo is tit-for-tat and tension ridden. The film can best be summed up
as a raw, authentic, emotional, intense, and shockingly uncomfortable look into
one family’s dysfunctional journey after a major loss.
Nothing that I could put into words could describe the
phenomenon that is wrapped in the talent of this film. I think it is safe to
say that August: Osage County is a must see!
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