Misery loves family
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.
- Suicide or self-harm
- Addiction
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and overwhelming.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Meryl StreepViolet Weston
- Julia RobertsBarbara Weston
- Julianne NicholsonIvy Weston
- Juliette LewisKaren Weston
- Ewan McGregorBill Fordham
- Margo MartindaleMattie Fae Aiken
- Abigail BreslinJean Fordham
- Chris CooperCharlie Aiken
- Dermot MulroneySteve Huberbrecht
- Benedict CumberbatchLittle Charles Aiken
Crew
- John WellsDirector
- Tracy LettsScreenplay
- Adriano GoldmanDirector of Photography
- Gustavo SantaolallaOriginal Music Composer
- Stephen MirrioneEditor
- Jean DoumanianProducer
- Grant HeslovProducer
- George ClooneyProducer
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