August: Osage County

March 29 – April 3

August: Osage County
Sat 3/29 4:00 & 9:00; Sun 3/30 5:00; Mon 3/31 6:30; Tue 4/1 9:00; Wed 4/2 6:30; Thur 4/3 4:00 & 9:00

Dir.: John Wells / 2013 / US / 121 min / DCP
Based on the award-winning stage play, August: Osage County is an explosive family drama set in the heart of the Midwest. Meryl Streep plays Violet, an angry woman whose poison tongue has driven away her offspring. Bitter and hostile, she’s cancer stricken and addicted to pills when her long suffering husband (Sam Shepard) slinks off into the night in an attempt to escape the toxic air of their destructive marriage. When he doesn’t return, her now grown children—reluctant and shell-shocked—converge on their childhood home to comfort their distraught mother. But comfort is the last thing Violet wants. She’d rather engage in some ‘truth telling’, which is code for starting a fight with anyone who crosses her caustic path. Featuring powerful, Academy Award nominated performances by Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, Scott Foundas of Variety calls August: Osage County “a splendid film version of an acid-tongued Broadway triumph.”