Running with Scissors
2006 Directed by Ryan Murphy
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Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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With unclear goals and unlikable characters, Running With Scissors is a great example of a film that thinks that it's so much better than it actually is
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Director Ryan Murphy, famous for bringing us the absurd adventures of two L.A. based plastic surgeons, found something else to bring to the big screen, which is indeed no less absurd.
The memoirs of Augusten Burroughs, titled "Running with Scissors" (Krass) made into a feature film and boy have we waited for that. Burroughs published five books so far (I couldn't find more titles on amazon, so excuse me if I'm wrong), of which four contain stories from his own life, so he claims. A life dominated by a crazy hippie-mother, wonderfully portrayed by Annette Bening in the picture, a drunk father, played by Alec Baldwin, and subsequent male father figures predominatly those of Dr. Finch (a hilarious Brian Cox),…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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omg no one understands me better write a bunch of terrible books
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I love this movie! I can probably add it to my all-time favorite movies list. I think it's brilliant.
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dumb
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Awful pacing, underdeveloped characters with only the barest resemblance to actual human beings, overreliance on the soundtrack, several overwrought montages, and a total lack of direction combine to make this a really unfortunate adaptation of a memoir that was frankly never very good to begin with.
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With unclear goals and unlikable characters, Running With Scissors is a great example of a film that thinks that it's so much better than it actually is
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It doesn't work for a second. One of those killer cast, massive flop concoctions that comes down the pike it seems at least once a year. These people are not interesting, they are dirty and off putting.
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I'm giving this four stars based on the incredible performances, some great lines, and the soundtrack.
With that being said, this movie felt like a chore to me. I haven't read the book but the story seems great. Familiar, but great and they cast it well. As far as the scope of the film, a lot of it felt very pretentious to me and I was kind of annoyed but some scenes really made up for it.
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Defines quirky.