Sentences with phrase «addled matriarch»

Though Streep, who plays the story's drug - addled matriarch, Violet Weston, has ample moments of alternating grief, delusion, vileness, and humor, all delivered in a swirl of characteristically calculated theatrics, it's Julia Roberts who walks away with this thing.

That's a rare distraction, but it invades Streep's otherwise impressive turn as a pill - addled matriarch in Tracy Letts» adaptation of his Pulitzer - Prize - winning play.

Template dysfunctional parents that they are, it takes a tragedy to bring the Weston family together: daughters Barbara (Roberts), Ivy (Nicholson) and Karen (Lewis) and extended family members sister Mattie (Margo Martindale), nephew Little Charles (Cumberbatch, here for his buzz and quite miscast), and brother - in - law Charlie (Cooper) arrive to mourn the departed and tend to a severely addled matriarch.