By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playwright Tracy Letts created the plot and characters in "August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, and knew that adapting it for the screen would not be easy. The film, which opens in U.S. theaters on Christmas Day with a star-studded cast headed by Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, poses questions about family, its meaning and whether to battle with relatives or walk away when things get tough. Letts, also an actor who won a Tony Award this year for his portrayal of George in a revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," grew up in Oklahoma. He drew on events and people in his own life when writing "August: Osage County," which is filled with twists and surprises and deals with addiction, betrayal, resentment and adultery with doses of humor as well as piercing sadness.
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