Running with Scissors

There is no other way to descibe this film, it is absurd but so very charming at the same time. I have watched it over and over and I always laugh non-stop at how unbelievable this true story is. People on... Full review

What was the point of making this movie so slow, and having absolutely no point. I hated it, I would never recommend it.... Full review

My husband and I thought this was going to be a comedy and it wasn't although it had some pretty funny parts. I can't say that it was a bad movie...the story was very original and the acting was very good,... Full review

I went into this movie expecting a quirky, well-acted movie….and I have to say I did get that. What I didn’t expect was that quirky off-the-wall behavior could actually become tiresome. The settings within the house were so gross it was... Full review

let me say this movie had a good ending, but other then that, i never found it once funny. i felt bad for the poor kid. if you want a funny comedy then see something elce, but if your in the... Full review

If ever a movie taught me not to let critics influence my decision to see something, this is it. I remember when this came out in the theater and the overall consensus of the major critics was that this film was... Full review

The true story of Augusten Burroughs's beginnings, sound like a demented work of fiction. That's true of most true things. Here, putting aside what's real and what may be a figment of Augusten's imagination, there is a movie. A slightly... Full review

Irritating at times but only at times when the writer, director, producer puts himself in front of the camera and all we see it's him. But, most of the time this is a surprising, smart comedy of pains with a... Full review

It was bad. Great actors in a bad movie. Boring, strange, did not care, could not wait till the movie ended: some things that were said about this movie. In a matter of fact, the latter was so true that we... Full review

Wow, what a bad film! The film's awkward at every count and unwatchable. The only bright spot is Brian Cox. He's above the material and he seems to be having a good time here. Unfortunatly, he the only one. Gwyeneth Paltrow... Full review

An impressive scrapbook of well-observed, offbeat performances is almost enough to make "Running With Scissors" worthwhile.....Joseph Cross, a 20-year-old actor with an intelligent face and a pleasant manner, plays young Augusten, who is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist..... ... Full Review

The characters are amazing, just do not let your child under 17 see this movie. I read this book, and the movie was woderfully true, to this fabulous book. One of the most fantastic movies I've seen,... ... Full Review

Organized by Augustens traumashere mom gives him to Dr. Finch for adoption, there he walks in on her having sex with one of her female poetry students (Kristen Chenowith) Running with Scissors is both dated and smug. Mostly taking a childs point of viewthat is, the perspective of a child essentially held hostage by the childish adults who surround him Running with Scissors doesnt so much follow a chronology as it collapses into itself. ... Full Review

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. ... Full Review

Unfortunately, although the dialogue is witty and clever, the film is far too long and the most interesting characters spend too much time off-screen.....Similarly, the film's appropriately chaotic structure disguises the fact....Running With Scissors has a great cast and an appropriately chaotic nature....Joseph Fiennes gives his best performance to date as Neil and Joseph Cross comfortably holds his own amongst the big hitters..... ... Full Review

Augusten Burroughs doesn't hate Christmas. But he thinks he may be a magnet for holiday calamity. ``It's this odd thing,'' says the author of the bestselling memoirs Running With Scissors , Dry and A Wolf at the Table . ``I... ... Full Article

A ugusten Burroughs' life is an open book. The author shared the embarrassing and gut-wrenching details of an adolescence spent living with his mother's psychiatrist in the bestseller "Running With Scissors." ... Full Article

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Simon & Schuster. 201 pp. $24 There are certain things to keep in mind while reading this memoir by David Lozell Martin. First, a sizable section of the population simply won't believe his childhood recollections, in the way that they... ... Full Article