Unsolicited Movie Review - August, Osage County
I've never seen a more loathsome and bitter character on screen than Meryll Streep as Violett Weston. That includes movies about Nazis and sadistic nuns. She is as cold hearted as it gets. To say she has a poisoned tongue does not do it justice.
This is an ensemble piece and it is stacked with not just good but great actors. Streep, Roberts, Chris Cooper, Maggie Martindale, Sam Sheppard etc. Like most ensemble pieces they each get their turn to shine but little lets you forget just how friggin hateful Streep's character is to everyone and usually at the most inopportune times.
The movie is adapted from a stage play but the transition to the big screen never really feels completed. The director might just have well set up a camera in the theater and filmed a performance. If you like superb acting and occasionally superb overacting; if you like ensemble pieces about dysfunctional families that would make your family look normal and if you want to hear some of the most viciously, funny insults to use at your next family reunion then the movie is worth your time.
I've never seen a more loathsome and bitter character on screen than Meryll Streep as Violett Weston. That includes movies about Nazis and sadistic nuns. She is as cold hearted as it gets. To say she has a poisoned tongue does not do it justice.
This is an ensemble piece and it is stacked with not just good but great actors. Streep, Roberts, Chris Cooper, Maggie Martindale, Sam Sheppard etc. Like most ensemble pieces they each get their turn to shine but little lets you forget just how friggin hateful Streep's character is to everyone and usually at the most inopportune times.
The movie is adapted from a stage play but the transition to the big screen never really feels completed. The director might just have well set up a camera in the theater and filmed a performance. If you like superb acting and occasionally superb overacting; if you like ensemble pieces about dysfunctional families that would make your family look normal and if you want to hear some of the most viciously, funny insults to use at your next family reunion then the movie is worth your time.
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