August Osage is a place somewhere in the US midwest. This film starts with the two aging parents, the mom sick with cancer and the dad, a bit depressed. One of their children stayed back home to look after them the other two moved away and got married, and the other, still singe is the ild one. All of their children are girls. Tragedy struck and the dad leaves home and gone missing for days. The family gets home together and find their dad drowned himself.
This is is the first film I saw at TIFF 2013. The film is a family drama engulfing you with the characters of every family member, the aunt, the uncle the cousin even the husbands and the boyfriends. In hours and a few days spanning the funeral and afterwards drama ensues and conflicts arise.
This is a Meryl Streep sure fire Oscar nominated role come 2014 Academy Award season and batting for Julia Roberts. Aside from Oscar nominated and star studied ensemble this is a performance vehicle film, and a bit of story on the side. The drama is so much you just have to credit it to pull the amazing acting. The lines a bit to harsh and vulgar but the script you must say is stunning upon delivery.
Every now and then as I was seating in a full theater with the audience remarkable delight reactions on every part enjoying the film I always see it as a drama in the Tagalog/ Filipino movie industry. It was so overdone that a soap opera would out run its bags of tricks. The drama is perfect for screaming lines, confrontations and oh no that just didn't happen kind of things. But, adapting this to a Filipino film would work sans the drug problem.
But this is a family drama, and worth the acting stunts pulled by Streep, Roberts, Lewis and Cumberbatch even the support would bag them an ensemble SAG all better than a remake or upgraded Steel Magnolias. Speaking of which SAlly Filed would have been the missing point of this movie and it would be en pointe to tear jerker, drama entertainment haven.
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