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Running With Scissors (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains very strong language
- Run time: 2 hours 2 mins
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 2nd February 2007
- Starring: Annete Bening, Joseph Cross, Gwyneth Paltrow
- Directed by: Ryan Murphy
- Official Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/runningwithscissors
- Distributor: Sony Pictures
Plot Synopsis
Running With Scissors is the feature film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' hilarious and poignant childhood memoir. Growing up in the pill-popping 1970s, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents divorce, Augusten's mother sends him to live with her wildly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), and his eccentric extended family. Running With Scissors chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances.