Don't pit 'August' the movie vs. play
Reviewers can't logically say poor film exposes flaws in stage script Curiously, the major reviews for "August: Osage County," the John Wells movie, have been turning into a referendum — a spectacularly ill-informed referendum, to boot — on "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Letts play that premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.