Running With Scissors
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 Released: July 29, 2003
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December 29, 2008
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.
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February 3, 2008
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 )
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January 21, 2008
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 )
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December 24, 2007
This movie is weird but good. A complex film about the childhood of novelist Augusten Burroughs who had a bipolar-poet mother and a alcoholic father, they decide to divorce , Augusten finishes living with his mother's shrink an his screwed family. The story seems interesting, wit... ...( read more )
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June 30, 2009
Haven't read the book (although I want to) so I am not sure if its the same in writing as it is on screen. It's such a crazy movie.. A good kind of crazy. I had wanted to see this movie for quite some time now, and I am glad I finally got the chance to. It was such a great movie.... ...( read more )
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