Running with Scissors (film)

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Running With Scissors
Promotional poster for Running with Scissors
Directed by	Ryan Murphy
Produced by	Brad Grey Ryan Murphy
Written by	Augusten Burroughs (Novel) Ryan Murphy (screenplay)
Starring	Joseph Cross Annette Bening Alec Baldwin Brian Cox Gwyneth Paltrow Evan Rachel Wood Jill Clayburgh Joseph Fiennes
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	October 20, 2006 (USA)
Budget	USD$12,000,000
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Running With Scissors is a 2006 film directed by Ryan Murphy.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Premise

Based on the memoir Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, the film is a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood. His mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist, an eccentric man with an eccentric family.

At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family and befriending Neil Bookman, a pederast who resided in the backyard shed. The story is one of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Joseph Cross	Augusten Burroughs
Annette Bening	Deirdre Burroughs
Gwyneth Paltrow	Hope Finch
Jill Clayburgh	Agnes Finch
Brian Cox	Dr. Finch
Alec Baldwin	Norman Burroughs
Joseph Fiennes	Neil Bookman
Evan Rachel Wood	Natalie
Kristin Chenoweth	Fern
Vanessa Redgrave	Joranne
Olivia Wilde	Nikki

[edit] Trivia

• 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.

• Gwyneth Paltrow, who is one of the producers, co-stars in the movie.

[edit] External links

• Running with Scissors Reviews at Metacritic.com
• Running with Scissors at Rotten Tomatoes
• Running with Scissorsat IMDB.com