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Running with Scissors
- Director: Ryan Murphy
- Writer: Ryan Murphy; Augusten Burroughs
- Producer: Augusten Burroughs; Dede Gardner
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Black comedy done to perfection.
Not to everyone’s taste but this is faultless film-making and a masterclass in performance.
Unique.
And...very funny.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 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?
Cast & Characters
Annette Bening as Deirdre Burroughs;
Brian Cox as Dr. Finch;
Joseph Fiennes as Neil Bookman;
Evan Rachel Wood as Natalie Finch;
Alec Baldwin as Norman Burroughs;
Joseph Cross as Augusten Burroughs;
Jill Clayburgh as Agnes Finch;
Gwyneth Paltrow as Hope Finch;
Gabrielle Union as Dorothy;
Patrick Wilson as Michael Shephard;
Kristin Chenoweth as Fern Stewart;
Dagmara Dominczyk as Suzanne;
Colleen Camp as Joan;
Jack Kaeding as Six-Year-Old Augusten Burroughs;
Gabriel Guedj as Poo