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Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Fiennes
This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.
Id: 10891837
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)
It be another of those quirky, eccentric, family drama movie things. Cox and Paltrow are great but it still slips into melodrama and, like all the rest, has to have a gay relationship. It's not as good as Igby Goes Down or American Beauty, but it's certainly better than The Royal...( read more)
Running With Scissors walk a tightrope between being a complete autrocity and being a work of mesmorizing genuis. I read the book a couple weeks ago and liked it a lot. The book managed to relate the bizare events without giving a feeling of "Woe is Me". Perhaps more importantly,...( read more)
It's so hard to review this as just a film since I read the memior before hand. . .
