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Running with Scissors

2006

Ryan Murphy

Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes ...

5.4

1,219

Comedy. Drama RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. Growing up in the 1970's, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents divorce, Augusten's mother sends him to live with her wildly unorthodox ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Burroughs made this comic house of horrors live and breathe on the page. Onscreen, despite actors who give their all, it lies there waiting for an animating force that never comes (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] is by turns hilarious and appalling"	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Visually, the movie is interesting (...) but the storyline varies between being derivative (...) and artificial (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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