Running With Scissors
by Ryan Murphy
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph FiennesDirector: Ryan Murphy
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Running With Scissors
DVD Review: loved the book, movie didn't come close to living up to the book
Summary: 2 Stars
like i said in the title the book was awesome. i loved the dark humor and if you have read the book...I absolutely loved augustens personality in the book. his ideas of doctors and how they should be...the way he describes himself and his love for shiny things...just his whole personality as a child in general was HILARIOUS but I didnt see much of any of that in the movie. also, I HATE how hollywood adds so many scenes that were NOT in the book...that book had more than enough crazy messed up GOOD scenes in it that it by no means needed more that didnt even exist for the movie. overall, i would recommend watching the movie if you HAVE read the book because its cool to see a book come to life on the big screen.DVD Review: give me a valium
Summary: 2 Stars
no wait, this movie is a demo of what it feels like to take a valium. Jill Clayburgh is the one bright spot in this snoozer.DVD Review: Read the book, thought the movie was alright
Summary: 4 Stars
I read the book about a month before ordering the DVD and obvioulsy the book is better. However, I found the movie to be a lot closer to the book than most people would think. I personally enjoyed this flick and even though I don't really like watching movies more than once I would consider watching this again if the occaison called for it.DVD Review: About the blu-ray
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very colorful movie, and it lends itself admirably to making a great looking blu-ray.DVD Review: Very good depiction of mental illness
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on a memoir, this quirky film does a good job showing what it's like to be around people who are mentally disturbed. The drama may seem comic, but it's really all too real. Every actor in this does a great job. I once lived in the Massachusetts town where this real life drama took place and used to see the psychiatrist dressed like Santa Claus strolling around downtown. Bizarre, but true. Watch this.
Description of Running With Scissors
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.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).
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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
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