Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Lee Eisenberg I heard about "Running with Scissors" when it got released but didn't get around to seeing it for years. I finally managed to. A couple of things to discuss.First of all, it's not a masterpiece but still bears watching. This story of a teenage boy is based on Augusten Burroughs's semi-autobiographical novel. I haven't read the novel but I'd like to. It's a most unusual set of people surrounding this lad: a mentally unstable mother and an alcoholic father, an eccentric psychiatrist and his even more eccentric family, and others.Also, when the movie ended, it was a pleasant surprise to see that the director is none other than Ryan Murphy, now known as the creator of shows like "Glee" and "American Horror Story". Indeed, the movie reminded me of those shows (even though I didn't know who the director was), and some of RwS's cast members appeared on them.Basically, it's one of the examples of what cinema can be when the people behind it put effort into the plot rather than into CGI. These are some of the most complex characters that I've ever seen in a movie. So far I've liked everything that I've seen from Ryan Murphy, including this. Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Jill Clayburgh, Evan Rachel Wood, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Chenoweth and Gabrielle Union all put on fine performances. I recommend it.

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jcarltopp It is possible that I lack the intellectual understanding to appreciate this movie, but really it would be more entertaining to watch a 2 hour maintenance video of ant-farms than watching this one. Every one is gay or masturbates with pride all over their children. This movie embarrasses the field of psychology and turns the idea of poetry and artistry into angry craziness with no regard for others. Watching this you will feel all psychologists are pedophiles and all women artists are Lesbians who have gay sons, who love to destroy marriages and make drama when they don't get the attention they want. If you are considering watching this because you have nothing else better in your life, I suggest you hold off and just consider suicide, because if your not there already, this movie will get you to it.

johnnyboyz The title suggests something edgy, something bold, something dangerous, something interesting. Alas, Running with Scissors is a monumental bore; a dispiriting and inconsequential film detailing wacky, zany, trippy, kooky or any adjective ending in 'y' ("e"), people going through hardships for our black amusement. As the film rambles on down a tangent of sprawling content and uninvolving, borderline psychotic people, it got more grotesque and less interesting. The film is devoid of any sense of comedy; humour; study; substance or intelligence, a witless, pathetic effort in its attempts to document the falling apart of a dysfunctional suburban family and the supposed rehabilitation that the mother and son of that unit go through in another family who're even more dysfunctional. Terribly directed; grossly uneven in tone; a film that makes no attempt to garner anything out of its impressive cast; obsessed with painting alienating and unsympathetic portraits of the central characters, whom we ought to be behind but just cannot stand when on screen for longer than a few seconds, as well as just being generally repetitive when it isn't either cataclysmically eccentric or 'pull your hair out' annoying; we have, in Running with Scissors, one of THE misfires of recent years.The film covers young Augusten Burroughs, of whom wrote a book in 2002 detailing his exploits as a young child of divorce growing up with psychiatrist Dr. Finch (Cox), himself of whom struck me as someone that either belongs on the couch or in the padded room rather than be allowed to treat patients in either locale, and his family in wife Agnes (Clayburgh) and daughters Natalie (Wood) and Hope (Paltrow). We begin in 1972, and young Augusten is just a child as his parents argue and bitterness resonates. The year of 1972 is brightly lit, their home colourful and quaint but underneath father Norman (Baldwin) is a dishevelled teacher whom enjoys a drink and mother Deirdre (Bening), whom will unwelcomingly feature much more later on, is a writer that cannot quite nail what she wants to do linked to magazine The New York Publisher. When the film flicks forward a few years to 1978, everything is less rosy in its colour palette and cinematography than what it was and while Augusten is older, the parents have stuck to their prior guns in their animosity with the desaturation of the home locale crucial in that Augusten is perhaps older and now able to notice the sorts of behaviour his parents engage in than what he was when he was in his infancy.What transpires from here is a divorce and the moving out of Deirdre and Augusten to the aforementioned Finch family; thus kick-starting a spiralling, tumbling, falling decline into all things sordid and nasty for either of these two, whilst Norman is seemingly off unaffected dating other women. This new family is a rag tag bunch; a group whom live in their own filth as it apparently pains them to tidy up and freely hurl insults at one another. The fact the film thinks these sequences are funny is unfortunate, the oddball tone it instills into proceedings coming back to trip the film up when we're lead to believe it now wishes to flick into a tale of a sordid descent down into a lifestyle of booze; cigarettes and homosexuality on Augusten's behalf, all whilst he's still relatively young. Where divorce and dysfunctional living are adult; mature and serious items that need proper attention, Running with Scissors laughably believes some brief excursions into underage drinking and a little sub-plot to do with a boyfriend will suffice in detailing the harsh realities of what happens to a young male mind in the fallout of what transpires in the boy's childhood.The thread bare plot, running on a rather dull premise, combined with an ensemble cast of some of the most unlikeable; most disgusting; most unrelatable characters ever put together for a film results in a near excruciating watch. Where we're systematically asked to laugh at all this off the wall, zany content in-which-nobody-really-knows-what's-going-on-and that's-apparently-really-funny(!) but then bring everything down a notch or three for Augusten's own decline in well being as we weep for the failed writer in Deirdre, we are left agasp at what's left in front of us. The film has none of that measured, slow burning maturity of something like 2004's Imaginary Heroes as a family gradually comes apart at the seams following something more tragic than a divorce in a suicide; and the blame, whilst I have not read Burroughs' book which may be the tale delivered in an equally misguided, equally adolescent manner, has to fall to American director Ryan Murphy, who adapted said text and, crucially, has since gone on to carve somewhat of a career within the medium of television. In between having his characters pause every now and again so as to spout daft philosophical musings amidst the eccentric babbling and charging around, Murphy really jumps the shark when he has his homosexual lead plus boyfriend go to see a "French" film high on "metaphorical" content because, as we all know(!), males that crave something a little 'higher' in their cinematic diet than the norm are grossly confused with their sexuality. In short, it is ridiculous; as is the film as a whole as is the fact we're expected to find any of these people interesting; their tales dramatic and the way the film goes about telling them engaging.