Running with Scissors
Do not disturb them. They already are.
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Release Date
10/27/2006Runtime
122 minsOverview
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$12,000,000Revenue
$6,754,898Homepage
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A darkly comic memoir adaptation that finds strange tenderness in dysfunction and chaos, following a teenage boy's surreal education in a household of misfits run by an unorthodox therapist. It's both painful and oddly life-affirming, balancing the absurdity of the situation with genuine emotional stakes.
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Heads up
Joseph Cross
Augusten Burroughs
Annette Bening
Deirdre Burroughs
Brian Cox
Dr. Finch
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hope Finch
Joseph Fiennes
Neil Bookman
Evan Rachel Wood
Natalie Finch
Alec Baldwin
Norman Burroughs
Jill Clayburgh
Agnes Finch
Gabrielle Union
Dorothy
Patrick Wilson
Michael Shephard
Kristin Chenoweth
Fern Stewart
Dagmara Dominczyk
Suzanne
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