August: Osage County / the Weinstein Company presents a Jean Doumanian/Smokehouse Pictures production in association with Battle Mountain Films and Yucaipa Films ; produced by George Clooney [and three others] ; screenplay by Tracy Letts ; directed by John Wells.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: WC61162 | Anchor Bay EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Distributor: Beverly Hills, CA : distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA August O | Available | 33111007888916 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director John Wells' adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winning play August: Osage County tells the tale of the dysfunctional Westin clan, who all come together after the death of patriarch Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard). His wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is fighting mouth cancer and a growing dependency on pain pills, sees her entire clan return home for the services, including her sister Mattie Fae Aiken (Margo Martindale) and her husband Charles (Chris Cooper) and their son "Little" Charles (Benedict Cumberbatch). Also arriving are Violet's three daughters: Barbara (Julia Roberts) and her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), and wild child Karen (Juliette Lewis), who brings her fiancé Steve (Dermot Mulroney). As the clan bickers and jokes, old truths come to the surface, jealousies flourish, and eventually each of the characters confronts some past hurt or future fear. August: Osage County screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Special features: feature and deleted scenes commentary with director John Wells and cinematographer Adriano Goldman; making of; featurette on writing with Tracy Letts.
Title from container.
Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham.
The dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
MPAA rating: R; for language including sexual references, and for drug material.
DVD, region 1, widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1.
English, Spanish and French dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.