Meryl Streep claws the walls well, but the trappings of theatre hobble this movie version of Tracy Letts' award-winning playThe auguries for August were good. Tracy Letts' play about a pill-popping, bile-spewing, scenery-guzzling matriarch, whose daughters try to pick up the pieces after her poet husband's suicide, won him a Pulitzer prize to stick with the Tony, plus prodigious other theatrical bling. The pedigree o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AM on September 10, 2013