Running with Scissors

Bada0Bing

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Plot Summary

Genres: Comedy, Drama
Plot Outline Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
Plot Synopsis: The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he's 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

Actors: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin
Directors: Ryan Murphy




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I just watched it. I kept having American Beauty flashbacks because of Annette Bening’s character and the timing of the music. Great cast, but I was expecting something a little better. I thought Even Rachel Wood did a great job, she has a nice start to her young career.
 

Heucrazy

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I can't imagine what that was like for that guy growing up that way.

Good movie though.
 
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