NaBloPoMo Month - "August, Osage County"

NaBloPoMo Month - "August, Osage County"
Entry #17 - 11/17/2013

 

2008 - "Bedtime Stories"

2009 - "Sherlock Holmes"

2010 - "Gulliver's Travels"

2011 - "War Horse"

2012 - "Les Miserables"

 

The point of this list is that I have never really been that excited about movies that premiere on the silver screen on Christmas Day. Yet it has become an apparent tradition for many, in the last few years to attend a movie viewing after opening all the Christmas gifts and eating the leftover cookies from Santa's visit.

 

Never have I partaken in this event and never have I wanted to partake in this event - until this year...in August 2012 I came home to deal with some rental house drama that had ensued and during my month long visit there were auditions being held at one of the malls in Tulsa for a movie that was slated to start taping starring Meryl Streep and July Roberts...the movie..."August, Osage County" and now that movie is finally slated to premiere in a little over a month!

 

 

The film is adaptation of Tracy Letts award winning dark comedy play of the same name. Mr. Letts is no stranger to great dramatic fiction and Oklahoma - his mother is novelist, educator and movie maker - Billie Letts who wrote the 1995 novel "Where the Heart Is" which was also made into a 2000.

 

The play made its Broadway debut on December 4, 2007 and ended its run on June 28, 2009 after 648 performances. It received the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play, Best Leading Actress in Play, Best Featured Actress in Play, Best Direction in a Play and Best Scenic Design in a Play - now the undeniable hit Broadway play is coming to the big screen with just as equally big name stars attached - the likes of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts!

 

Filmed on location in Bartlesville and Pawhuska, the story of "August, Osage County" is a dark comedy that tells the story of Violet (Streep) and her daughters following the suicide death of the family matriarch and that drama that ensues in the following days!

 

"I'm just truth telling. Some people are antagonized by the truth."

 

I for one cannot wait to see more of Streep's portrayal of an Oklahoma matriarch - because if her former body of work and the previews are any indication it's going to be one hell of a ride from start to finish with the actress who is likely to score another Oscar nomination and hopefully win for her portrayal of Violet Weston.

FAMILY HOLDS US UP

FAMILY KNOCKS US DOWN

The tagline from one of the previews and it's oh so very true. Many of you know that one of my top three favorite movies of all time in the 1980s drama-comedy hit "Steel Magnolias" which also starred Julia Roberts - if this movie lives up to the hype and delivers on what I think it can deliver upon...it may very well become one of my favorite movies too.

And there is something that tells me...and while I can't put my finger on it exactly at the moment...that Margo Martindale who plays Aunt Mattie Fae...is going to continue to be the breakout star that I already know her to be!

Check back on Christmas to get me review of "August: Osage County."

Until then...Ciao Bella...