August: Osage County
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young Cheyenne woman Johnna (Misty Upham) as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is suffering from oral cancer and addiction to narcotics. Shortly after this, he disappears from the house, and Violet calls her sister and daughters for support. Her sister Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale) arrives with husband Charles Aiken (Chris Cooper). Violet's middle daughter Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) is single and the only one living locally; Barbara (Julia Roberts), her oldest, who has inherited her mother's mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) and 14-year-old daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Barbara and Bill are separated, but they put up a united front for Violet.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Drama, Comedy |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Ron Burkle, Jerry Frankel, Arny Granat, Grant Heslov, Jeffrey Richards, Harvey Weinstein, Patrick Daly, Steve Traxler, Claire Rudnick Polstein, Ben Famiglietti, George Clooney, Bob Weinstein, Jean Doumanian, Celia D. Costas |
| Directed By: | John Wells |
| Written By: | Tracy Letts |
| Cast: | Julianne Nicholson, Jerry Stahl, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, J. Alan Davidson, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Dale Dye, Julia Roberts, Maria Gus, Newell Alexander, Benedict Cumberbatch, Misty Upham, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, Will Coffey, Ivan Allen, Meryl Streep, Arlin Miller |
| In Theaters: | Jan 10, 2014 |
| Runtime: | 2 hours 1 minute |
| Production: | The Weinstein Company, Jean Doumanian Productions, Smokehouse Pictures, Battle Mountain Films, Yucaipa Films, Grey Hour Production Services |
| Budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Box Office: | $37,738,810 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
