Meryl Streep will play cancer-ridden, pill-poppin' matriarch Violet opposite Julia Roberts as confrontational daughter Barbara in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County, according to published reports citing The Weinstein Company.
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Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts Set to Star in Film of August: Osage County

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