Deborah Ross

August: Osage County? Why not make your own?

It helps to have Meryl Streep letting rip. But you won't be missing much else...

Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in ‘August: Osage County’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 25 January 2014

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If you and your family are bored — if, for example, it’s one of those dull Sunday afternoons that seem to drag on for ever and it feels as if it’s never going to be time for The Antiques Road Show — you could gather together and play your own version of the family drama August: Osage County.
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