August: Osage County released its first trailer today, on May 10. The film is based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-prize winning play of the same name. August: Osage County the film is directed by John Wells. Starring in the film are Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard, Abigail Breslin, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch and Meryl Streep.

August: Osage County's first trailer clearly shows that family dysfunction will be front and center. Funerals and divorces, as well as normal family drama and some drugs, are revealed.

Despite the family problems, the trailer hints at the family's union to overcome their differences. However, the play's original storyline is much darker than the film's trailer seems to portray.

Slate expressed hope that director John Wells, who has been deeply involved in Showtime's Shameless, would portray the dysfunctional family appropriately.

The film tells the story of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family. The matriarch, played by Meryl Streep, is battling cancer and on heavy medication. The trailer definitely highlights Streep's driving role in the film, but other excellent actors make the supporting storylines count.

The cast includes three Oscar winners (Roberts, Cooper, and Streep) and three Oscar nominees (Shepard, Breslin, and Lewis).

Already, Oscar buzz surrounds the film, and in particular Meryl Streep as the mouth cancer battling, drugged matriarch, named Violet.

Roberts stars as Streep's oldest, and favorite, daughter, an academic with marital issues and a rebelling 14-year-old daughter (Breslin).

The movie traces the family's reactions and interactions after Violet's husband, Beverly, dies abruptly.

Harvey Weinstein and George Clooney produced the film.

The LA Times reported that when August: Osage County appeared at the Ahamson Theater in 2009, critic Charles McNulty wrote, "The play's pedigree could be expanded in ways both high and low, but 'August' brews its own distinctive mix of tragicomic gravitas and florid pop."

August: Osage County opens in theaters on November 8. Check out the trailer below: