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August: Osage County

74.46.242.198

Awe-d-o-file

Geez this is well done. Great cast and they all pull it off. Some surprises in how the actors act and of course in the story based on a play. Not uplifting but really intense and worth watching for sure.

ET

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The acting was great . . . - Billy Wonka 17:30:53 11/09/14 (4)
but when the lights came up I almost wish I hadn't seen it. It was a Debbie Downer family reunion that I could have skipped.
- Shoud be retitled - Ever Southern Adult Woman Cusses Like a Sailor - Road Warrior 20:11:24 11/10/14 (0)
  Being from the south, like your own self, between fambly, work, and friends, I've known hundreds of adult females and I've never heard one cuss like characters in this movie. What a freekin downer of a movie.....
  
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  Edits: 11/10/14 11/10/14
- RE: The acting was great . . . - Awe-d-o-file 11:46:26 11/10/14 (0)
  I hear ya! My wife felt the same. I am somehow able to cope with the horror and pain of it because I know it is fiction. Tracy Letts the writer of the play which won a Pulitzer calls it a dark comedy. I agree.
  
  I could laugh at parts of the film when I saw it. I was always in awe of the writing and most of the acting. I was deeply moved by the scene where the sheriff shows up to tell Violet about her husband. Wow.
  
  The dinner scene is priceless as is the one I mentioned above and the third amazing scene was Julia Roberts at her moms doctor.
  
  Life can be shitty so when I see things like this I am grateful I didn't have to go through them. Mine was tough with an alcoholic father but nowhere near this bad..............it is more sad to me to see my sister who used to be one of the sweetest loving and caring people on the planet. She turned into a monster saying things to her kids that our alcoholic father never came close to. Real life is sad sometimes, movies are movies.
  
  ET
- The trope of the dysfunctional family's reunion should have a fork driven into it, by now. nt - tinear 10:49:39 11/10/14 (1)
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  - I disagree - Awe-d-o-file 11:57:49 11/13/14 (0)
    especially when it is done this well. Families will always reunite for deaths in the family and many other reasons so they will continue forever. Well, as long as we have families.......
    
    ET

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