Running with Scissors
This is a son's story of a bipolar-poet mother with delusions of grandeur who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.
3 July 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
24 July 1968, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
23 October 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
17 July 1976, Kielce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland
27 September 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 October 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 April 1968, Appomattox, Virginia, USA
7 September 1987, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
30 April 1944, New York City, New York, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
1 August 1989, Houston, Texas, USA
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
28 May 1959, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
7 June 1953, San Francisco, California, USA
29 October 1973, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
26 November 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 May 1970, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
28 January 1997, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.
March 15, 2007
The excruciating display of bohemian spoils wears the word "delightful" in quotation marks, with a theatre accent.
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.
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
If the book was deadpan, the movie is more -- or less -- dead.
August 28, 2009
Strictly for the Anderson-Baumbach crowd of privileged idiots
October 27, 2006
This is an Igby Goes Down without the laughs, a morbid miscalculation of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou size.
October 29, 2006
As dysfunctional family movies go, this is one skip. It doesn't just run with the scissors, it falls on them.
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.
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.
October 27, 2006
The film trips over its willy-nilly story line and falls on its own blade.
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.
