Running with Scissors (2006)

Directed by

Ryan Murphy

Genre

drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 261 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy navigates a chaotic childhood with his unstable mother and ends up living with her eccentric therapist. The film follows his surreal and often troubling experiences as he grows up in an unconventional household.

wryunsettlingdarkly comicchaoticemotionally rawdysfunctionalcoming-of-age

What happens

Running with Scissors is a 2006 American comedy drama film written and directed by Ryan Murphy, based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Gwyneth Paltrow. The semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood (when his real name was still Christopher Robison), based on his best-selling book, received mixed reviews as a film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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