August: Osage County is a difficult film to sum up, it follows a disfunctional family from Osage County Oklahoma, after the Father dies, the relatives gather for the funeral, and their relationships are tested to breaking point.
This is a very difficult film to follow, I found it difficult to penetrate the surface, there are so many characters all with their own individual problems, that there is almost to much going on. Violet, played by Meryl Steep is so over the top initially that it almost becomes a bit of a Characerture, I found it very hard to get into.
The plot such as it is, is basically one argument after another and very little in the way of narrative story, in the rests between arguments, all they do is complain about how hot it is.
On the plus side, I can appreciate why Streep and Julia Roberts have been nominated for Oscars, these are difficult characters to play, and they play them very well, but good performances alone are not enough, and this film is let down badly by the screenplay 4/10
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