Best 10 Holiday Horror Films # 3.

Dysfunctional families dread rituals and Thanksgiving is a ritual. In the dysfunctional clan you gather,eat ritual foods and explode.That blast can be triggered by ritual infusions of alcohol, prescription drugs, long simmering anger and secrets.

In the film August Osage County you get a cattle prod version of what family rituals can detonate in dysfunctional families .The ritual is a funeral and Meryl Streep  plays the pill-popping mother from hell, Julia Roberts plays one of the angry family members who both hate and love this dying, drunken, 60’s minted mother.The secret is prescription drugs. 

Seeing films about the dysfunctional family helps us decide whether that’s who we are and maybe what to expect this fast coming Thanksgiving,Hanukah,Christmas and New Years. Judge your family blast for yourself by streaming or ordering the movie. You just can’t lose with Streep in the lead.