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Running with Scissors
2006
Comedy
Drama
1h 56m
Running With Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. The film chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances. (Sony)
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Running with Scissors
2006
Comedy
Drama
1h 56m
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Avg Percentile 36.78% from 634 total ratings
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Rated 17 Apr 2009
75
54th
The first thing I thought after seeing this movie is that I really just need to read the book. The story was really slow for me in the beginning but once Cross moves in I think things pick up a bit. Clayburgh does a good job trying to hold her crazy family together, which seems to be just about impossible. I liked the music selections too. If you can hang on for the beginning you might be surprised with the quality of the ending. Love the line... "I need higher ceilings"
Rated 17 Apr 2009
Rated 04 Mar 2012
45
18th
If you don't have a masturbatorium in your house you are failing.
Rated 04 Mar 2012
Rated 09 Mar 2014
100
90th
i love the color scheme, soundtrack, characters, art direction, very well done and honors the freak in all of us.
Rated 09 Mar 2014
Rated 24 Dec 2012
75
56th
Director Ryan Murphy (Glee) is a talented director of actors & I like the oblique comic tone he employs, but this adaptation is a bit coy and marred by an over-reliance on the soundtrack and actors' crying fits to make points and contrasts. Still, overall, it seems promising to me.
Rated 24 Dec 2012
Rated 27 Feb 2007
30
4th
Very depressing stories require some sort of artistic vision to work. This one lacked it. The actors did a good job, but they had little to work with. A good example of Hollywood's confusion of darkness with art.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
Rated 26 Oct 2009
40
24th
Nothing good
Rated 26 Oct 2009
Rated 15 Jul 2011
36
27th
Evan Rachel Wood was good. I also liked the very end. Annette Benning made it right and the whole ending scene worked nice. But the movie itself tired to be a new world according to Garp and failed in big scale. And I do not like Fiennes, no Paltrow nor Baldwin.
Rated 15 Jul 2011
Rated 16 Nov 2014
70
64th
Underrated.
Rated 16 Nov 2014
Rated 30 Nov 2012
70
61st
By turns cruel, self-pitying, and mordantly witty, Bening makes living with a delusional psychotic seem like the adventure of a lifetime.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
Rated 13 Jul 2007
75
53rd
Temmuz 07
Rated 13 Jul 2007
Rated 18 May 2008
75
93rd
Quite the twisted movie. Whats even more crazy, is the fact that its "true". I enjoyed it :)
Rated 18 May 2008
Rated 25 Feb 2007
50
1st
I didn't like this movie at all. I also didn't think it was funny.
Rated 25 Feb 2007
Rated 13 Jun 2007
53
36th
Things just sort of happen, but then, this is a sort of biography, isn't it? That said, some of these things are amazing to think they ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Still, I felt like the main character, Augusten, had so little likeability (perhaps the actor's fault?), that it was hard to sympathize or get more emotionally involved. Joe Fiennes also gets a thumb down for some lazy acting.
Rated 13 Jun 2007
Rated 17 Sep 2007
50
22nd
Some parts are pretty good....most are just flat
Rated 17 Sep 2007
Rated 08 Jan 2010
66
58th
This movie randomly spoke to me in my early post-adolescent years, so I hold it dear in a strange way. But I'm seriously afraid of revisiting it because I'm almost sure I would hate it nowadays.
Rated 08 Jan 2010
Rated 12 Nov 2007
90
42nd
A hear-wrenching, funny, and disturbing black comedy about awful, confused, and troubled people all searching for love and meaning
Rated 12 Nov 2007
Rated 23 Jul 2009
75
79th
Benning is great as the clearly insane mother, but she's not the only weird person, even the psychiatrist is a wack job.
Rated 23 Jul 2009
Rated 28 Feb 2007
92
36th
funny funny stuff..
Rated 28 Feb 2007
Rated 01 Feb 2008
43
26th
just read the book.
Rated 01 Feb 2008
Rated 16 Nov 2012
40
9th
An absolute mess. Changed random aspects of an autobiography to make even less sense. Drags on in most scenes. Most dialogue is dry and trying to include random elements of the book without actually doing anything about them. Acting is terrible.
Rated 16 Nov 2012
Rated 10 Jul 2010
67
15th
I found it a pit painful to watch this movie. Being as i read the book before even knowing they had made a movie, si i had hight expectations about it, but i just got disappointed (the relationships between characters are very changed). They did no justice to the weirdness of it all and i just got bored watching it.
Rated 10 Jul 2010
Rated 22 Oct 2007
35
0th
This movie bastardized the book and destroyed an american classic
Rated 22 Oct 2007
Rated 03 Nov 2008
20
6th
A terrible mess.
Rated 03 Nov 2008
Rated 04 Jul 2008
10
9th
Maybe I was having a really bad night, but I found this movie stupid. I didn't get any of the humor. Dysfunctional doesn't even begin to describe the characters - I will admit the acting was the only redeeming quality involved in the film.
Rated 04 Jul 2008
Rated 17 Jun 2007
45
20th
This was supposed to be a true story, but I had trouble believing it. Then I read an article where the family portrayed in the movie refuted a lot of the details. Lucky for them, the movie didn't do very well anyway.
Rated 17 Jun 2007
Rated 29 Feb 2016
85
87th
Barely remember. I think I liked its weirdness.
Rated 29 Feb 2016
Rated 21 Sep 2007
85
78th
Really quirky. I liked it.
Rated 21 Sep 2007
Rated 01 Jul 2007
12
2nd
Unlikable and really screwed up characters doing dumb stuff. The only character I really liked was Alec Baldwin who was in the movie for 2 fairly brief scenes.
It's not "hilarious" and definitely not "poignant".
Rated 01 Jul 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
35
7th
Awkard pacing and direction ruin a uniformly great cast (including a game Joseph Cross). The director obviously has no idea how to tell this kind of story.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 01 Apr 2007
69
23rd
This may be based on a true story but the whole thing seems so absurdly far fetched that it just doesn't work. The people in it are just plain unlikable which makes the whole thing even harder to care about.
Rated 01 Apr 2007
Rated 03 Oct 2013
65
44th
Second half had it all, first one had nothing.
Rated 03 Oct 2013
Rated 25 Nov 2006
65
18th
Tried really hard to be quirky and clever, succeeded at neither. I had high hopes, but they were diminished.
Rated 25 Nov 2006
Rated 14 Aug 2007
8
3rd
I couldn't force myself to watch past the first twenty minutes.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 12 Aug 2009
45
16th
It's an all over the place and misdirected series of vignetes poorly connected. Murphy tries to make it a quirky indy comedy and a coming of age drama and and falls short in both fields. On the good side, the production design is absolutely outstanding and there are a couple of funny moments mainly due to the mostly adequate cast.
Rated 12 Aug 2009
Rated 03 Apr 2008
60
49th
It's good to know that my family isn't the only one that put the 'funk' in 'disFUNCtional'. That said, I thought the book was awesome. The movie? Not so much. The acting was pedestrian, at best, and seemed to teeter on community theater as the movie went on. Worth the first watch, but not a second one...especially if you have previous experience/knowledge of Augusten Burroughs.
Rated 03 Apr 2008
Rated 13 Jun 2007
68
60th
Their quirkiness translated well into a display of internal conflict, and I found it fascinating.
Rated 13 Jun 2007
Rated 05 Sep 2009
48
13th
Very strange film and it dragged on a bit, but it still had something about it that made it barable to watch.
Rated 05 Sep 2009
Rated 08 Nov 2010
10
9th
"This is among the most loathsome films of the year, something of a Hollywood facsimile of Tideland, only Terry Gilliam's gothic upchuck was not so dense as to make any pretense to reality." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 08 Nov 2010
Rated 18 Jun 2011
60
14th
Utterly disappointing and pedestrian depiction of what sounds like an interesting story. Murphy wants to tell a story with Lynchian-style personality freaks. But, instead of nightmarish dream-sequences, he gives us a soundtrack of pop music and a never-ending stream of kitsch.
Rated 18 Jun 2011
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