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, 2008I'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, 2008A 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, 2008I 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, 2007This 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, 2009Haven'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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November 6, 2006
Pete Hammond, Maxim
October 27, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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
October 27, 2006
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
If the book was deadpan, the movie is more -- or less -- dead. full review
October 27, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film trips over its willy-nilly story line and falls on its own blade. full review
October 23, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
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
October 21, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's Baldwin, in a relatively small role, who nearly blows the whole movie apart. full review
October 20, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Despite actors who give their all, it lies there waiting for an animating force that never comes. full review
October 19, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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
October 19, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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.
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October 18, 2006Augusten 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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