House Nixes Movie Production Tax Credit
‘August: Osage County’ image of Oklahoma spurs state House to spurn film incentives
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY — The treatment given “August: Osage County” by the critics and the Academy Awards was nothing compared to the way it was kicked around Monday by the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
“A movie almost nobody saw!”
“Filth!”
“We don’t need that kind of thing around here!”
Critics — and there were plenty of them — said the movie about a flawed Oklahoma family and its overbearing matriarch was a prime example of why the state’s film-incentive program should not be renewed.
“Aren’t we just reimbursing movie stars who come to town for their motel and meals?” asked Rep. James Lockhart, D-Hartshorne.