Yep, as everyone noted here before, the acting is great. Yes, the actors are great, but the characters' they're portraying are very irritating and unpleasant to watch. I don't really know who is to blame here. Is it the director, or is the play itself. Except of mild pity towards Julian Nicholsons' character (Ivy) I didn't sympathize with anyone. They are just not worth it. So I didn't care much about their problems either. The most irritating thing for me was the way the family members communicated with each other. Mother and daughter constantly yelling at each other and cursing each other. In fact, most of the conversations were passed in such way. So the audience has got a 2 hours of disrespectful bunch of people screaming at each other. And that's not because they are expressing themselves that way (to underline something). That's because it's how those characters usually behave.

Icannot really say I hated this film 'cos I did not get that far into it before I cancelled and watch something else. For all the stars in it you would expect something entettaining or meaningful or something but no. Just don't bother.

I have seen this movie a few times and this last time I realized how much people become the people around them. When you are young you are innocent but, as you grow you start to take on the qualities of the people close to us. We are products of our family and close friends. We are born innocent but as we grow we take on the imperfections and idiocentricities of the people that surround us and sometimes it's good but, sometimes it's creates horror. This movie shows you how other generations can be impacted by how our parents or grandparents teach us cruel or unusual behavior. It's sad and it's unexpected but it happens. We grow up seeing and listening to our elders talk and act out in horrible ways and sometimes we accept it as truth. We learn by association. Great movie, excellent acting. Sad but true.

The characters in the movie were great , the atmosphere heavy and dens , intense however heavy to watch . I added 5/10 stars , because although all the above are right , the movie end with me asking "what's the point ?" Why did I have to suffer through all the discomfort of the characters while it lead to nowhere ?

where do I begin with this movie? I will start with the setting, the setting of this movie was absolutely beautiful, showcasing breath taking Oklahoma and the acting was A-list by everyone in this film, the directing come on! Great! And the writing, Tracy Letts really did a great job cutting down the 3 hour original play to a delicious 2 hour raw masterpiece. Meryl Streep does a great job portraying a drug addicted person with family issues. And Ewan Mcgregor was also great in the film, I actually have the ring and watch that he wore in the film. August Osage County is a must watch film there is nothing negative to say about this well acted, directed and written film.

This movie concerns a family of foul mouthed people who are grossly dysfunctional. It is not entertaining, it is not uplifting, it is not normal. It's horrible. And no, I didn't see it through to the end. It simply had no redeeming feature for me, at all. Don't waste your time. It's supposed to have comic relief, but if it did, it was well hidden. Good performances? I'm well acquainted with the excellent cast members. I didn't see any "good performances." I would say it was a total waste of good talent. I see in the guidelines that I should compare it to another movie with a similar theme. I would highly recommend "Two Weeks" which has the same theme (mother dying from cancer, adult children coming home, etc).

Meryl Streep turned in another phenomenal performance as a drug addicted mother within a most dysfunctional family. She is equally matched here by Julia Roberts, who really turned in one of her best performances as one of her daughters, with a head on her shoulders but seeing her marriage fall apart. The dynamics here of a brooding family caught up in the apparent suicide of Sam Shepard, who portrays Streep's husband in the film. There is a memorable funeral dinner scene where the family really lets itself go. Incestuous relationships abound here as the sisters practically feed off one another. Streep appears to be a survivor here. Whether she is totally abandoned by film's end remains a question to be answered.

Just watched this with my movie theatre-working friend. He had watched it before but I hadn't so many of the revelations here really surprised me especially when it was revealed that someone the Julianne Nicholson character was involved with was not what she knew initially. Meryl Streep gave another outstanding performance and Julia Roberts matches her in emotion and attitude. Pretty much the rest of the cast were fine in their performances and characterizations. For those who are reading this not having seen the movie, I'll just say that the family gets together for a funeral and start airing some grievances which results in some revelations that changes some dynamics for possibly forever. Really, all I'll now say is I highly recommend August: Osage County.

Is it just me? I quitted after half an hour...I mean, I got a headache because of all the screaming and...I don't know, I got creeped out. The cast is promising and they really do a great job despite the loss of a script. The people portraited are so unnaturally extreme. Why, oh why can't you produce movies of any good, anymore? It's so expensive to go to the theatres and I wanna get blown away, and not be screamed at and become unsettled. That's what my own life is for, thank you very much. I guess, I stick to Brits movies. They know how it's done. Sorry. In any television show is put more effort into than American films. Nevertheless I do enjoy quite a handful American telly shows.

Somebody hand over another well deserved Oscar to Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts for their respective roles in August: Osage County, based on a play by Tracy Letts of the same name. I know it's too early in the Oscar race to predict but these two women give a powerhouse performance that deserves recognition. A wonderful cast has been put together to display how a dysfunctional family has been brought back together by tragedy and how Violet (Streep) treats her daughters after they've been gone for a long time. Every one has a good reason why they don't want to be here and as the movie progresses we realize why they all left and want to live this place again. Read the full review on my blog (warning: includes some spoilers) but know that here's the movie that kicks off the Oscar race, along with The Butler. Let the award season movies begin!!!