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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396159136 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: 15913 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: February 06, 2007 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: October 27, 2006 Editorial Review: Product Description: Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is a wickedly funny brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood. Augusten's (Joseph Cross) mother (Annette Bening) is a deluded aspiring post with bipolar disorder whose marriage to his dad (Alec Baldwin) is in ruins. Soon she is seeing a very eccentric therapist named Dr. Finch (Brian Cox) while Augusten is left in the care of Finch's wackly family including his tightly-wound daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Abandoned by his parents and adopted by the Finches he finds a kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie (Even Rachel Wood) and motherly support from Finch's long suffering wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh). Constantly recording the events of his life in his journals as a way to cope Augusten finds himself avoiding school learning about love from an older man (Joseph Fiennes) and making big decisions at the tender age of fifteen.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396159136 Manufacturer No: 15913 Amazon.com: Annette Bening is the stand-out highlight in this dysfunctional "family" comedy based on the bestselling memoir by Augusten Burroughs. Although fans of the book may be slightly disappointed with the film's uneven and somewhat campy rendition of Burroughs' twisted adolescence in the 1970s, there's plenty of pleasure to be found in the work of an excellent cast led by Bening, who gives a subtle dare-to-hate-me performance as Burroughs' mother Diedre, a would-be poet who's so aloof about her teenage son Augusten (played by fresh-faced newcomer Joseph Cross, from Flags of Our Fathers) that she allows him to be legally adopted into the eccentric family of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox). As the half-crazed Finch overmedicates Diedre into a haze of semi-conscious madness, he also turns Augusten's life upside down while his wife (Jill Clayburgh) and daughters (Gwyneth Paltrow, Evan Rachel Wood) indulge their own eccentricities and Augusten enters into an intimate relationship with one of Finch's adopted patients (played by Joseph Fiennes).
As adapted and directed by Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, Running with Scissors lacks the singular voice of Burroughs' dryly comedic first-person narrative, but even as the film struggles to find a consistent tone, it's so full of wacky behavior that you can't help laughing. It's a messy, patchwork quilt of a movie, blessed by authentically garish '70s production design and a soundtrack of familiar '70s hits. In rendering Burroughs' indelible portrait of weak, irresponsible adults and the people they victimize, Murphy and his well-chosen cast (which also includes Alec Baldwin as Diedre's ex-husband) find moments of touching pathos amidst the madness. For her part, Bening delivers an acclaimed performance that gives the film a dramatic weight it otherwise lacks. The rest is for anyone who enjoys a laugh at the freak-show expense of damaged and damaging characters. --Jeff Shannon Stills from Running with Scissors (click for larger image)
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 Rating: - Not worth your timeThere were small elements of the story that I appreciated, but not enough of them to make it worthwhile to watch the whole movie- and usually I really love artistic independent-type films. It drags on and on in really odd directions with no real punchline. Weird. Rating: - Running with Scissors - The MovieI was somewhat disappointed in this movie. I felt the book was far more intense and gave you a deeper understanding of Augusten's life. Although there was an excellent cast in the movie, it just didn't match the intensity and craziness that was in the book. Had I not read the book first, I may have appreciated the movie more. I give the movie a B-. Rating:  - Nightmare On Shrink StreetBased on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir about his dysfunctional childhood, "Running With Scissors" (2006), is like a blend of "The Upside of Anger"(2005) and "Tideland" (2005). The film was not commercial enough for widespread theatrical release but has built up a decent size cult following and probably sold some books. If you don't like the film (or at least relate to it) it is probably because your family was not dysfunctional enough. As Paul Newman discovered when he made "The Effect ... Read More Rating: - Natalie was FAT!First of all, Natalie was a big girl, however Hollywood will never allow that, and whatever. If I had never read the book, I mightve liked this movie, but the book was sooo much more. I cant let it go. The movie was just lacking, thats it. Annette Benning I thought was distracting in a good way, she was the best part of the movie. But I just cant get over the fact that Natalie was a skinny sexy Hollywood type. Shame.Running With Scissors Rating: - Dysfunctional childhood one would not wish to anyoneSeveral years ago, I attended C-SPAN's book tour in Chicago. Amongst many writers promoting their upcoming books was Augustin Burroughs. Although I never read his work, I knew his name and that he had a best selling memoir out -- at the time, when people were fabricating their own. I guess Augustin's childhood was such a preposterous one that other writers tried to match it to some degree by fictionalizing parts of their own. In any case, book reading was fun and Augustin was reading from his new ... Read More |
