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	Running With Scissors Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Gwyneth Paltrow is wasted as the doting oldest daughter of her father, and Evan Rachel Woods is well cast as the twisted and candid youngest daughter Natalie.
		The film is amazingly well cast, but the film is nothing more than an empty travelogue of Augusten's long, strange trip.
		The book is terrifically effective at making the most twisted and repulsive things seem perfectly normal, whereas the film merely shows you these twisted and atrocious things in order to shock, but nowhere in the narrative does the book's tremendous heart raise to the surface.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2006/running-with-scissors-2211.php (580 words)

	Running With Scissors film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		"Running With Scissors" is an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir, in which he describes his childhood with his bipolar and self-centered mother (Bening).
		Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus.
		Running With Scissors will be based on the novel by Augusten Burroughs and will be written and directed by Ryan Murphy.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/r/runningwithscissors.shtm (615 words)

	Running with Scissors (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Running With Scissors is a 2006 film directed by Ryan Murphy.
		Based on the memoir Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, the film is a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood.
		This film reunited Ryan Murphy with several actors associated with his television drama Nip/Tuck, including: Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Seth Gabel, Leslie Grossman and Vanessa Redgrave.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(film) (222 words)

	Running With Scissors - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The author has a long list of grievances, along with the wisdom to realise that revenge is a dish best taken with a sharp flavouring of farce.
		In Ryan Murphy's film of the book, she is played by Annette Bening in a performance that ranges from impish charm to crazed indifference without missing the merest variation in between.
		The charm shows up briefly in the opening scenes, set in 1971, when Augusten is still a small boy and mother and son are conspiring to think up excuses to keep him home from school.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/running-with-scissors/2007/03/23/1174597851670.html (954 words)

	Running with Scissors (2006): Reviews
		Running With Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs.
		Watching Running With Scissors the movie instead of reading Running With Scissors the best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs is like running with a spatula, or maybe some weird toast tongs.
		Or, to put it another way, running with scissors isn't all that bold or daring an act when you're constantly running with corks on the tips of the blades.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/runningwithscissors (1615 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Running With Scissors Captures the Book's Essence
		But unless you've actually read Running With Scissors or one of its reviews, you may not realize that after divorcing Augusten's father, his mother had relationships with several women.
		The film does not shy away from these relationships, and in fact, treats them with the same degree of normalcy as everything else in Augusten's extremely unconventional childhood.
		Running With Scissors is the feature film debut for Ryan Murphy, who wrote the screenplay as well as directed and produced the film.
	www.afterellen.com /Movies/2006/10/running.html (630 words)

	:: MvMMDI : Running With Scissors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was a film that went beyond the normal conventions of film-making and challenged my emotional and intellectual beliefs, in regards to film and drama.
		That motion picture is "Running With Scissors", and it is being decimated by critics all over the country.
		"Running With Scissors" is one heartbreak after another, disguised brilliantly with bursts of outrageous humor and sidesplitting laughter.
	www.moviesmademe.com /show_mov.php?d=925 (1295 words)

	Q&A With 'Running With Scissors' Author Augusten Burroughs - Moviefone
		On the bright side, Burroughs' chaotic youth led him to write a critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir, 'Running With Scissors.' The intensely funny and poignant film adaptation stars Annette Bening (as Augusten's mother), Alec Baldwin (as Augusten's father), Brian Cox (as Dr. Finch), Gwyneth Paltrow (as Hope Finch) and Joseph Cross (as Augusten).
		I was not going to option 'Running With Scissors' for film because I just felt it would be too easy to make a cheesy, terrible movie out of it.
		And he had such a deep understanding of 'Running With Scissors,' it was almost as though he wrote it himself.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity-interview/augusten-burroughs-running-with-scissors?ncid=AOLMOV00180000000003 (1333 words)

	Running with Scissors: Cutting to the Heart of Performance
		Running with Scissors is the kind of dramatic, performance-based film that many filmmakers dream of working on.
		Because this was Smith’s first film project - as well as Murphy’s film directing debut - Smith felt an enormous responsibility to ensure that the film’s editing processes were of the highest possible quality and ran without a hitch.
		The film was even projected straight from the Symphony system in the screening room to refine the color timing.
	www.avid.com /profiles/061030_scissors_filmcomposer.asp (1822 words)

	Movie Review: Running with Scissors - /FILM
		But Running with Scissors is far from a bad film.
		Scissors is filled with incredible moments that scream out, wishing they were a part of that better capable film that could have been.
		Running with Scissors is an unbelievable survival story about the quest for family, identity and forgiveness.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20061020running-with-scissors-review (640 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Film : Running With Scissors
		Running With Scissors has a great deal in its favour, including an undeniably kickass cast, fantastic art direction and a solid pop-music score.
		Running With Scissors, the movie, seems to be suffering from its own identity crisis.
		Ultimately, Running With Scissors felt strange, but oddly lacking in emotional connection.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/102606/film4.html (292 words)

	Charleston - FILM REVIEW ‌ Cutups - Running With Scissors has crazy characters galore but somehow still lacks ...
		Maybe the problem with Running with Scissors is that it takes no point of view on this particular painful childhood — it doesn't even seem to have anything to say about Augusten's "affair" with Neil (Joseph Fiennes), another head case who hangs around the Finches' place.
		The film is neither daring enough to say, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with this," nor is it committed enough to consider — if only later to dismiss — any damage it might have done to Augusten.
		That's the film all over: It doesn't run with scissors; it walks carefully, fully aware of how dangerous they are and not in the least willing to risk getting hurt.
	www.charlestoncitypaper.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:19319 (817 words)

	Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes \| 'Running With Scissors'
		Annette Bening runs riot in smooth adaptation of Augusten Burrough's 'Running With Scissors'
		The film paints a fairly accurate picture of 1970s craziness, with lines like this, from Deirdre to her son: "Please don't smoke my cigarettes; you have a pack of your own upstairs." Still, I have reservations.
		Running With Scissors (R; 116 min.), directed and written by Ryan Murphy, photographed by Christopher Baffa and starring Annette Bening and Joseph Cross, opens Oct. 27.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/10.25.06/running-with-scissors-0643.html (618 words)

	Powell's Books - Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
		Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus.
		A film version of Running with Scissors starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow was adapted for the screen by Ryan Murphy.
		A life story such as the one told in "Running With Scissors" will either be hilarious or tragic, and Burroughs chose hilarity.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=18-031242227x-0 (1153 words)

	Running with Scissors (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Running with Scissors is strange and psychotically contagious, 21 October 2006
		Running with Scissors has no shortage of such pulpy details, as its hero, Augusten Burroughs, has all the makings of memoir sentimentality.
		His film is tightly-knit, too, with every line of dialogue truly used and with characters' stories intertwined into a family of glowing psychosis.
	imdb.com /title/tt0439289 (999 words)

	Running with Scissors Represents What is Wrong with the Modern Film Industry - Associated Content
		Whatever is was born out of, it is one of his greatest strengths now and one of the main reasons he is a successful and popular author.
		The tone in Running With Scissors (the book) is rather matter-of-fact, and almost detached in its resignation to the absurdity of his life.
		The film, which ideally would've been done more like an absurdist play, was filled with melodrama and over the top emotion.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/221014/running_with_scissors_represents_what.html (714 words)

	New York Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the best-selling memoir "Running With Scissors," gay author Augusten Burroughs took readers on a absurdly comic, David Sedaris-esque jaunt through his perverse, seriously screwed-up adolescence, chronicling the dysfunctional family upbringing and lunatic adults (his parents, his mother’s shrink) who were running the veritable asylum that was Burroughs’ childhood.
		And thanks to the director’s thick application of 1970s period detail and the film’s bracing, heightened (yet not caricatured) performances, the result is a surreal circus brimming with both humor and despair.
		In the film, the character is given greater depth, and a closer relationship emerges between her and Augusten.
	www.newyorkblade.com /2006/10-23/arts/film/film.cfm (663 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Running with Scissors
		Though some of the situations are, in themselves, morally objectionable (making the film unpalatable for many), the overall tone and resolution have a distinctly moral center.
		"Running With Scissors" (TriStar), adapted from author Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoirs about his wildly unconventional adolescence in the 1970s, shows how his bipolar mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening), estranged from her ex-alcoholic husband, Norman (Alec Baldwin), gives up their son (Joseph Cross) for adoption.
		The film contains pervasive rough language and profanity, a couple of discreetly handled same-sex relationships including a disturbing age-inappropriate one, other sexual themes and innuendo, scatological humor, drug use, domestic violence, an irreverent remark, and discussion of suicide.
	www.usccb.org /movies/r/runningwithscissors.shtml (718 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Running With Scissors
		Despite the ridiculous '70s wardrobe and dated statements of purpose (Deirdre wants to "emancipate" her white, middle-class self; Dr. Finch shuts himself up in his "masturbatorium"), the end result is a sensitive, sophisticated comedy of no manners in which people's rude self-involvement is both comic and tragic.
		Above all else kids, remember that running with scissors is not safe even if they're those small plastic safety ones with the bright yellow handles.
		After seing the film, I discovered that it even though the focus is on Augusten Burroughs, it's also about the people around him on how they are trying to succeed in life, taking a chance and how they deal with failure.
	www.hour.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=10643 (2070 words)

	Running With Scissors \| Film \| Arts \| Telegraph
		An adaption of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir of his childhood spent growing up in the shadow of his neurotic mother, Running With Scissors is directed by Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of the television series Nip/Tuck.
		But the characters who embellish the story are ultimately peripheral to the film's central theme: Augusten's relationship with his mother.
		Running With Scissors is released on February 2, 2007
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/filmslide/runningwithscissors/pixscissors.xml (328 words)

	Troubles at home - Washington Blade
		Joseph Cross and Evan Rachel Wood are part of the stellar ensemble cast in the film version of ‘Running With Scissors,’ based on the memoir by gay writer Augusten Burroughs.
		The film is rich fodder for gay audiences, especially considering that the director Ryan Murphy is gay, the original source material is gay and the gay themes are handled with such ease as to make other Hollywood films blush for shame.
		Cross is the lynch pin of the film, providing stability in the midst of swirling delirium.
	www.washblade.com /2006/10-27/arts/film/film.cfm (628 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Augusten Burroughs shaken — and awed — by sharp "Scissors"
		"Running with Scissors": A campy memoir of a bizarre childhood
		Now, at 41, his life has come full circle: "Running with Scissors" is a movie, starring Annette Bening and opening in Seattle today at several theaters.
		Since "Running with Scissors," Burroughs has completed the memoir "Dry" and the essay collections "Magical Thinking: True Stories" and "Possible Side Effects." And he's found stability in his personal life, living with longtime partner Dennis Pilsits and their two French bulldogs.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2003325044_burroughs27.html (1157 words)

	RUNNING WITH SCISSORS - DVD
		The film is based on Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir, and the author has plenty to forget: not merely the failure of his real family, consisting of a distant alcoholic father and a self-righteous failed-poet mother, but also the nightmare of moving out of that home and into that of Mommy's quack psychiatrist.
		Sony brings Running with Scissors to DVD in a 2.42:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that's extremely lustrous, especially considering the purposefully-muted palette; the aforementioned canary-yellow nightmare pops, though the murky browns of the Finch house are no less striking or well-defined.
		The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is fine for a dialogue-driven film, with excellent bass during the period soundtrack selections and voices coming through crystal clear.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/runningwithscissors.htm (947 words)

	Running With Scissors - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Cinema has long conditioned us to suspect the sanity of psychiatrists, and the head-shrinker in Running with Scissors is a doozy.
		Dr Finch (Brian Cox) is not nuts exactly, but prone to predicting the future by gathering his family around the toilet bowl to examine his stools.
		What bolsters the film, apart from its compendium of Finch family quirks, are the performances by Bening and Clayburgh.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film-reviews/running-with-scissors/2007/03/29/1174761648987.html (551 words)

	Washington City Paper
		That may be a factor, but just as significant is that the film has such a hectic, diverse surface that it’s hard to focus on its essence.
		The director relies heavily on vintage rock—mostly soft and from the early ’70s, although the bulk of the film is set in 1978–1980—and even enlists Tenenbaums alumna Gwyneth Paltrow for a supporting role.
		Like a Wes Anderson film, Running With Scissors proceeds as a series of skits, way too cool and ironic to be disturbing, no matter how aberrant the latest development.
	www.washingtoncitypaper.com /film/2006/film1027b.html?navCenterBot (1311 words)

	FYA - film: Running with Scissors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To be fair, Running With Scissors, one of what I fear will be many screen adaptations of best-selling, Oprah-favored, highly embellished "memoirs" within the next few years, ought to be commended for one particular eye-catching quality: When the actors are called on to cry, they look like they're crying.
		But the film's worst offense is shared by many others of its type: All this pandering, all this posing, all this pushing the audience to feel pity, is overshadowed by the filmmaker's decision to mock the very same characters it supposedly cares about.
		We want pathos, we want heartfelt affliction, or at the very least bittersweet laughs — and all we get are a collection of unleashed hospital inmates juggling their idiosyncrasies in a circle, fighting for attention.
	www.fyamag.com /film/06/1025_scissors.html (697 words)

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