August: Osage County
U/A: Drama
Dir: John Wells
Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts

There’s something about August: Osage County that makes it seem like Oscar bait. It’s got a gigantic array of talented Hollywood stars, it’s set in an overtly bleak and depressing rural Oklahoma, it’s got overtly dramatic accents, it’s got overtly dark plot machinations, overtly loud confrontations, overtly disturbing character traits.