AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY IS A 2013 AMERICAN BLACK COMEDY-DRAMA FILM DIRECTED BY JOHN WELLS AND WRITTEN BY TRACY LETTS. THE FILM STARS MERYL STREEP, JULIA ROBERTS, EWAN McGREGOR, CHRIS COOPER, ABIGAIL BRESLIN, MARGO MARTINDALE, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, JULIETTE LEWIS, DERMOT MULRONEY, JULIANNE NICHOLSON, SAM SHEPARD, AND MISTY UPHAM.

THE FILM IS ABOUT A LOOK AT THE LIVES OF STRONG-WILLED WOMEN OF THE WESTON FAMILY, WHOSE PATHS HAVE DIVERGED UNTIL A FAMILY CRISIS BRINGS THEM BACK TO THE OKLAHOMA HOUSE THEY GREW UP IN, AND TO THE DYSFUNCTIONAL WOMAN WHO RAISED THEM.

THE FILM RECEIVED MIXED TO POSITIVE REVIEWS FROM CRITICS BUT PRAISING CAST'S PERFORMANCE, ESPECIALLY STREEP AND ROBERTS', AND THE LATTER TWO RECEIVED ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR BEST ACTRESS AND BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS RESPECTIVELY. METACRITIC GAVE THE FILM A RATING OF 58/100.

                                                         PERSONAL REVIEW

DIRECTION                                :   7.0/10

SCREENPLAY                           :   8.0/10

PERFORMANCE                       :   10/10

EDITING                                     :   6.3/10

MUSIC                                         :   6.9/10

CINEMATOGRAPHY              :   5.8/10

GENERAL                                  :   8.7/10

OVERALL                                              :   7.5/10 (GENERALLY POSITIVE)