Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow
This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.
DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003
Stats: 8,472 reviews
I didn't really like it. It was kinda long and drawn out. I thought it would be better, since I usually like psych movies.
Good film with fantastic performances by Bening and Cox. The fact that it?s a true story makes it even more entertaining but I must say I'm a little cross with myself for not reading the book first, have been meaning to for so long and probably won?t now for while. Recommended.
I'm pretty sure that "heart warming" is NOT the right word...but somehow that is what pops into my head...perhpas "touching" is more appropriate?
In any case this film was not the quirky "dark comedy" that the trailer lead me to believe it would be.
Instead what I got was a...( read more)
A movie about crazy people. I don't like the film very much as I don't feel we learn much by watching it. It seems to be one confusing snapshot after another. The acting is fine. It is a movie that I need to see a second time to totally understand it. The film doesn't inspir...( read more)
I want to start this review by mentioning that I actually really liked the book although I had to try to read it a couple of times before I got through it and really liked it. So with in mind that is why after seeing this awful film once I decided to give it a second chance and.....( read more)
Ryan Murphy has done an excellent job of taking poignant, disturbing and sometimes laugh-out-loud material and adapting it into something profoundly annoying. Augusten Burroughs' superbly written first memoir details in vignettes moments of his teenage life at the hands of massiv...( read more)
A weird kinda film and very strange to any disfunctional person or family group that havent had any contact with the even more disfuctional profession of therapy educated in sycology and mentel health counciling.
Based on the true memoirs of a youth, the teenage/young adult son...( read more)
Running with Scissors looks great, and works fine when Bening is on screen; otherwise, it's off-balance, teetering where it should hold steady. full review
If the book was deadpan, the movie is more -- or less -- dead. full review
The film trips over its willy-nilly story line and falls on its own blade. full review
Ryan Murphy's jaunty screen version of Running With Scissors proves that nothing consecrates one's depiction of a narcissistic mother like having her embodied by Annette Bening. full review
It's Baldwin, in a relatively small role, who nearly blows the whole movie apart. full review
Despite actors who give their all, it lies there waiting for an animating force that never comes. full review
What is lost in the translation from book to movie is emotional subtlety and pathos, which, to be fair, were in short supply to start. full review
The problem is that the efforts of the actors don't add up to much more than a series of uncomfortable, funny-horrible vignettes in a scattered, shapeless movie.
Augusten Buroughs is wonderfully brilliant. I hope they interpreted the book on screen appropriately. The cover makes me giggle alone, so we shall see.
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