Running With Scissors [Blu-ray]
by Ryan Murphy
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph FiennesDirector: Ryan Murphy
Brand: Tristar
DVD: Region Code 1
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
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Running With Scissors [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: Natalie was FAT!
Summary: 3 Stars
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 ScissorsDVD Review: Dysfunctional childhood one would not wish to anyone
Summary: 4 Stars
Several 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 book. I could see that this is a writer who prides himself on seeing humor in the obscene world around us. I was also struck by his openness and frankness that inlcued his sexual orientation as well. So when this movie came out I had to see it. I was hoping to capture his childhood and see how he became the man and writer that he is today. And while the film will keep you mesmerized about his growing up, his parents, his parents' divorce and unbelievable life afterwards, you will truly enjoy Annette Bening's portrayal of the middle aged bi-polar woman who is incapable of being a mother and cannot cope with her own miserable life. What does get lost in the film is the author's humor. Hence, four stars. But this story is so original that I guarantee you have never seen (or read) anything like this before. DVD Review: good book bad movie
Summary: 1 Stars
I read the book and thought the movie would be good. I was disappointed. I tried twice to watch the movie. After the second try I decided that the movie was not watchable. Wish I had rented it instead of buying. DVD Review: Quirky family, that's for sure
Summary: 3 Stars
OK, perhaps this film has some semblance to the true upbringing of the main character, the teen-aged Augusten Burroughs, but if so, the whole lot of them needed to be committed.
Joseph Cross plays the young Burroughs, and does a pretty good job. The character's gay, and Mr. Cross is believable as a gay would-be hairdresser (sorry, cosmetologist). Most of the attention is going to be paid to Annette Bening's Deirdre Burroughs' performance, and Ms. Bening plays the self-indulgent, no-talent mother well, but the character is totally without sympathy. Jill Clayburgh plays Agnes Finch as a sad-sack, overwhelmed loser, but is one of the few sympathetic characters in the film. The beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow plays a character (Hope Finch) somewhat similar to her role in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (quirky to a fault).
Overall, the movie was somewhat entertaining, but don't expect lots of laughs. My thoughts were (1) the father played (well) by Alex Baldwin should have divorced (or better yet, never married) Deirdre; (2) Child protective Services would have had its hands full with the Finch's even more dysfunctional family; (3) getting Augusten out of both the Burroughs' and the Finch's house was what we all were waiting for; and (4) the IRS hounding of Mr. Finch was probably the best use of that agency in quite some time.
I can't really recommend the movie, but it isn't as bad as the worst reviews here, nor as good as the five-star reviews. Two and one-half stars.
DVD Review: Waste of time and money
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have looked at the reviews before I subjected myself to what I thought would be a good movie. I watched the entire movie then removed it from the DVD player opened the back door and threw it across the yard. It will remain there until trash day and then it will reside in a land fill with all the other garbage.
Description of Running With Scissors [Blu-ray]
Tristar Running With Scissors (Blu-Ray)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 poet 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 wacky family, including his tightly-wound daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Abandoned by his parents and adopted by the Finches, he findsa kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie (Evan 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). 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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