Running With Scissors

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Running With Scissors

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Running With Scissors

Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Chenoweth, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Cross

This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.

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  • irisheyes686
    October 2, 2009
    irisheyes686
    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.
  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    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.
  • RCCLBC
    December 29, 2008
    RCCLBC
    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) very moving (and yes "quirky") period (1970's) piece about the life of one boy and his COMPLETELY disfunctional family (both biological & "adopted").

    The cast is amazing and the writting (for the most part) is as clever as it is depressing.

    All in all an enjoyable (but heartbreaking)story.
  • Redlats
    February 3, 2008
    Redlats
    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)e me to read the book.
  • johnd62
    January 21, 2008
    johnd62
    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). I still hated it. Why because it turns the dark, hilarious and heartfelt book by Augusten Burroughs into nothing more then a second rate Wes Anderson movie. The entire movie tries way too hard to get us to like these people and despite great performances from Annette Bening and Brain Cox the rest of the cast is either miscast or really not interested. Despite all that the biggest problem is director Ryan Murphy because he doesn't know the difference between forced wit and strangeness and having all that with something about the people involved that make us feel like we understand them.
  • danieljparsons
    October 25, 2009
    danieljparsons
    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)ely irresponsible adults: an abusive, loveless father; a fundamentally damaged and abused mother; a paedophile; and an unhinged, unstable psychiatrist doctor. Ryan Murphy gets so much wrong it's hard to know where to begin, but for starters Augusten's father (here played by Alec Baldwin) is sympathetic when he should be feared, his mother (played with skill and dexterity by Annette Bening) is promoted to a starring role when she should be barely glimpsed, and music cues are overused to the nth degree. The manipulation Neil Bookman has over Augusten, which forms a good deal of the backbone of the memoir, is hastily got through in a few scenes and lacks any depth. Joseph Cross as Augusten does a very good job however, and his scenes with Evan Rachel Wood are amongst the most funny and successful. But too much potential is wasted and the film tries too hard to shock and be melodramatic in some areas whilst neutering the power of others. Read the book again instead.
  • awkoppenberg
    October 18, 2009
    awkoppenberg
    evan rachel wood is hot.
  • panmac
    October 15, 2009
    panmac
    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) of a famously controversal, unsuccsessful poet/writer and an alcohol abusing father. After a parentel split up he is left in the care of his mothers therapist, at the height of presciption drug abuse in the 70`s and 'valium motherhood' question was answered. The therapists house was a gaggle of girls and a 'suffering mum'.

    He grew homosexual tendansies experiencing love expression experimentation with an older guy when is also part of the Dr`s client list, apart from his direct family that is.

    Struggling through recession timesand his mothers infamous.. lfe and its followers/ing , he learns what he can, about getting up and on his own two feet without a Dad ever there after age 15yrs.

    A lot of strong femminine issues while the Dr, trying to keep as much masculene gentry amoungst irrational situations asserting an awefully eccentric appearance (how others would see him as..)

    A stella cast and a directioal jugger-naught causing a difficulty of a semblance of a continum with the adolescent material to work with.

    A really good job from Annett Benning a supurb actress and some good work from Joseph Cross (the son... ?The Star?) ha ha. Also a familiar face portraying the 'eccentric Dr Finch' effortlessly. Please have an eye out for the gay man. I had trouble finding his talent, though new it was there.
  • thecatwalk
    September 4, 2009
    thecatwalk
    man, this is so crazy it could only happen in real life.
  • poptartfiend
    August 24, 2009
    poptartfiend
    love the book, but this movie is surely awful
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