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Title: Running with Scissors (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Annette Bening | ... | Deirdre Burroughs | |
| Brian Cox | ... | Dr. Finch | |
| Joseph Fiennes | ... | Neil Bookman | |
| Evan Rachel Wood | ... | Natalie Finch | |
| Alec Baldwin | ... | Norman Burroughs | |
| Joseph Cross | ... | Augusten Burroughs | |
| Jill Clayburgh | ... | Agnes Finch | |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | ... | Hope Finch | |
| Gabrielle Union | ... | Dorothy | |
| Patrick Wilson | ... | Michael Shephard | |
| Kristin Chenoweth | ... | Fern Stewart | |
| Dagmara Dominczyk | ... | Suzanne | |
| Colleen Camp | ... | Joan | |
| Jack Kaeding | ... | Six-Year-Old Augusten Burroughs | |
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Gabriel Guedj | ... | Poo |
The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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 confused, a bit pretentious but unquestionably fun movie with some high caliber actors at the top of their game. Annette Bening to start with, extraordinary and without clinging to one of her delightful giggles. She is a magnificent, deplorable human spectacle. Reconizable and yet totally alien. Her character is in her way down from the word go and she (Annette or Deidre)don't shy away from the most devastating human blows. She is surrounded by a beautifully designed human zoo of extreme characters. They carry their eccentricities like badges of honor. Brian Cox, superb as the Dickensian know-it-all, his daughters , Evan Rachel Wood and the magnificent Gwynneth Paltrow who can tell you more with half a look than with two pages of exposition. Jill Claybourgh! Goodness gracious me! Where has she been? She's the throbbing heart of the matter, dog food an all. Her sanity, hidden behind a demented, neglected hairdo, is as real as Joseph Cross' Augusten Burroughs. Joseph Finnes's gorgeous nut doesn't have a great deal of sexual chemistry with his under age lover but maybe he wasn't suppose to. As if all this wasn't enough, Alec Baldwin, giving one of the best performances of his career in a character who's on the screen for only a few minutes. Woody Allen, John Irvin even Eugene Ionesco and Frank Perry are present in this engaging display of human frailty. Terrific surprise.