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Running with Scissors

Do not disturb them. They already are.

2006 · 1h 56m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Ryan Murphy

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Overview

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

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31%
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Rotten

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.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten

As dysfunctional family movies go, this is one skip. It doesn't just run with the scissors, it falls on them.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten

Running with Scissors looks great, and works fine when Bening is on screen; otherwise, it's off-balance, teetering where it should hold steady.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten

If the book was deadpan, the movie is more -- or less -- dead.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten

This is an Igby Goes Down without the laughs, a morbid miscalculation of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou size.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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