August: Osage County backdrop

August: Osage County poster

Quick Info

Rating

6.9/10

Release2013

Runtime2h 1m

StatusReleased

Budget$25,000,000

Revenue$74,188,937

Production

Jean Doumanian Productions

Smokehouse Pictures

Battle Mountain Films

Yucaipa Films

The Weinstein Company

Movie

August: Osage County

2013

2h 1m

6.9

Comedy

Drama

Synopsis

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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