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August: Osage County (2013)

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Misery loves family

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

Cast & Crew

Director
John Wells
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    Barbara Weston Julia Roberts
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    Violet Weston Meryl Streep
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    Ivy Weston Julianne Nicholson
  • Profile picture of Juliette Lewis
    Karen Weston Juliette Lewis
  • Profile picture of Ewan McGregor
    Bill Fordham Ewan McGregor
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    Mattie Fae Aiken Margo Martindale
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    Jean Fordham Abigail Breslin
  • Profile picture of Chris Cooper
    Charlie Aiken Chris Cooper

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Keywords

  • suicide
  • funeral
  • southern usa
  • drug addiction
  • oklahoma
  • based on play or musical
  • family secrets
  • dysfunctional family
  • cancer
  • suicide of father
  • midwest
  • alcoholic father
  • protective father
  • mental disorders
  • family home
  • bad mother
  • sisterhood
  • abusive mother
  • sick mother
  • mother daughter relationship
  • brother sister relationship
  • pills
  • pill-addicted
  • toxic family