MUMBAI: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts will star in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County.

The John Wells directed film, based on the play written by Tracy Letts, follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them, the Hollywood Reporter said.
 
Streep, who has endeared herself by playing Britains strong lady Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady will play the pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston. On the other hand, Roberts will play her daughter Barbara.

Streep is currently in the best actress Oscar race for The Iron Lady.