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- It's based on the true story of author Augusten Burroughs' extremely dysfunctional childhood (his manic mother handed him over to her therapist) and runs the gamut of bizarre, often-crazy behavior.
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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.
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Dec 18, 2006 · Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs's memoir of a shattered childhood, has spent more than two years on the New York Times best-seller list, spawned a Hollywood movie, and earned him...
- Buzz Bissinger
Oct 20, 2006 · Running With Scissors is the true story of Augusten Burroughs childhood, one that he himself admits is so far out there, that no one will believe it. He's right, the story is way out there, and it's very hard to believe that all this went on for years unnoticed.
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Oct 6, 2006 · Running With Scissors is the hugely popular memoir by Augusten Burroughs. It is the tale of his life and his mother, who, he writes, gave him away to her psychiatrist at a young age. The tale...
- JJ Sutherland
Oct 20, 2006 · Directed by Ryan Murphy. Comedy, Drama. R. 1h 56m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 20, 2006. Like its source, Augusten Burroughs’s best-selling memoir, the new movie “Running With Scissors” is by turns...
- Ryan Murphy
Jan 1, 2007 · Family dysfunction is taken to the sharp edge of insanity in Running With Scissors, a wry drama based on the memoirs of Augusten Burroughs.
Jul 10, 2002 · 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.
