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Running with Scissors
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This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.
This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.
Actors:
Nancy Cassaro,
Will Carter,
Omid Abtahi,
Anthony Aria,
Gabriel Guedj,
Kristin Chenoweth,
Gwyneth Paltrow
Nancy Cassaro
28 May 1959, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
Will Carter
19 April 1968, Appomattox, Virginia, USA
Omid Abtahi
Anthony Aria
Gabriel Guedj
Kristin Chenoweth
24 July 1968, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Gwyneth Paltrow
27 September 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
Country:
United States
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The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
March 15, 2007
The excruciating display of bohemian spoils wears the word "delightful" in quotation marks, with a theatre accent.
April 24, 2009
Based on Augusten Burrough's memoir, "Running With Scissors" traverses the '70's American zeitgeist in eccentric personal terms when the American dream plummeted into horror with the aid of prescription drugs.
October 27, 2006
Running with Scissors looks great, and works fine when Bening is on screen; otherwise, it's off-balance, teetering where it should hold steady.
thelondonpaper
February 02, 2007
The first half rolls along like an excitable child hoping to entertain with each new stunt. But it loses the book's dark humour. Running with Scissors? More like a stumble.
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 27, 2006
If the book was deadpan, the movie is more -- or less -- dead.
August 28, 2009
Strictly for the Anderson-Baumbach crowd of privileged idiots
Ebert & Roeper
October 31, 2006
In the real world, mental illness is a serious problem. In this film, it gives everyone a license to run around like characters in a Lewis Carroll story -- all of it set to predictable pop hits from the 1970s.
February 28, 2008
Running With Scissors is a schizophrenic film. It simply doesn't know what it wants to be %u2014 a witty and wacky satire, or a serious and heartfelt drama.
Orlando Sentinel
October 27, 2006
This is an Igby Goes Down without the laughs, a morbid miscalculation of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou size.
March 23, 2007
For every aspect that is depressing, there something that is fresh and uplifting, and it is credit to writer director Ryan Murphy for capturing the mood of Burroughs' book so faithfully.
October 29, 2006
As dysfunctional family movies go, this is one skip. It doesn't just run with the scissors, it falls on them.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 27, 2006
The film trips over its willy-nilly story line and falls on its own blade.