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Running With Scissors
2006
Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family. Read more
| Starring | Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood |
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| Director | Ryan Murphy |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
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Running With Scissors
Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
| Starring | Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin |
|---|---|
| Director | Ryan Murphy |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, Hindi, Italian, Portugese, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Jun 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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Augusten Burroughs' memoir has been at or near the top of the New York Times best seller list for non-fiction these past 127 weeks. Call me crazy, but I wonder if it would pass the Oprah... read more »
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66 out of 66 people found this review helpful
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Dark comedy minus the comedy!!
This film had the potential to be on par with the likes of The Royal Tenenbaums and numerous other movies dealing with dysfunctional families, but it never quite reaches that level. There is just too much tragedy in the lead characters life for even the slightly funny bits to raise a smile.
I found myself more concerned with the fact that this film is based on Augusten Burroughs' personal memoirs, and alarmed that all these events actually happened to this poor kid!!!
There is a couple of redeeming qualities though- one is Annette Bening who acts her socks off as the crazy mum, and the second is that Augusten survived his traumatising childhood to become a success!!!
Think I might go back and read the book instead!!!
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- balearicbayes from Denny
- Posted 19 Dec 2007 11:43
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Running with a nail file.
Although the acting in this film is brilliant in lots of place and obviously the subject matter is about a boy growing up with dysfunctional parents/guardians, the film ran too long and was just too quirky to be compelling.
Based on a true story there are parts of the film the raise a smile but never a laugh. Gritty and implausible at times i was ultimately left with the feeling of blah!
I would say watch it but reserve judgement and don't expect this to be a WOW film as it will disappoint.
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- Nadiestar from Ruislip, Middlesex
- Posted 12 Feb 2008 23:15
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