AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Three sisters are called back home when their father has gone missing; they have kept their distance from their mother because she has become addicted to pills and loaded up on prescriptions after securing mouth cancer.  It is discovered that their father has drowned himself.  The entire family gets into an awkward conversation for the funeral dinner, led by the high and brutally honest mother who claims she is just “truth telling.”  Barbara, the favorite daughter of the three, hunts down all of her mom’s pills and gets rid of them in an attempt to force her to sober up.  In the end, the mother’s mean-spirited nature isolates herself from her entire family and she has nobody except the newly hired housekeeper for comfort.  Throughout the film, we learn of some of the family’s back stories – one couple is going through a separation; one sister barely keeps in contact with the others and her fiancé is sleazy and hits on her 14-year-old niece; and one sister has fallen in love with her first cousin which becomes even more controversial when it is revealed that he is actually her half-brother, the son of her aunt and father.  http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/AugustOsageCounty.html

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