Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts, who also penned the screenplay, “August: Osage County” is the sort of movie that shows its stage roots. The action — and by “action,” I mean people talking — takes place in more or less a single location. There’s a certain showiness to the dialogue and performances, as if broadcasting to the back of the room, and it relies on two or three big, booming plot twists to carry the narrative, which by itself is rather meager.
August: Osage County
August: Osage County
August: Osage County
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts, who also penned the screenplay, “August: Osage County” is the sort of movie that shows its stage roots. The action — and by “action,” I mean people talking — takes place in more or less a single location. There’s a certain showiness to the dialogue and performances, as if broadcasting to the back of the room, and it relies on two or three big, booming plot twists to carry the narrative, which by itself is rather meager.