| | | He's Looking Forward to a Memory He Won't Have to Supress.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
Running with Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. Growing up in the 1970's, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents divorce, Augusten's mother sends him to live with her wildly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox) and his eccentric extended family. Running with Scissors chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances.
"...a perversely funny book whose odd characters are given life by a terrific cast." Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
"...[Murphy] hit the mark for laughs and has written some juicy scenes for his excellent cast." Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"...authentic, believable performances..." Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS OCTOBER 20, 2006RUNNING WITH SCISSORS adapts writer Augusten Burroughs's bestselling memoir about growing up with an emotionally unstable mother who abandons him to her psychiatrist.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, PCM 5.1 Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 5/27/2008 |
| Running Time: 122 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 15913 | | UPC: 00043396159136 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2007) | | | Golden Globe, Annette Bening, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"Ms. Bening's precise, pitiless tracing of her character's decline from feisty defiance to pathetic, over-medicated self-delusion gives the film an emotional weight..." 10/20/2006 p.E1-E22Entertainment Weekly
"The experience is unusual -- zany, even....Bening is elegantly unvain in her ferocious performance..." 10/27/2006 52 Box Office
"Murphy's direction is impeccable, and the performances, particularly Bening's are uniformly excellent." 12/01/2006 p.80 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Bening excels as the movie's driving force, and as you watch her character go from doting to deranged you can see why there's Oscar buzz for her nuanced performance." 03/01/2007 p.45 Sight and Sound
"An intelligent adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir....This is a film in which everything is heavily considered and nothing is accidental..." 02/01/2007 p.71-72 Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A} wonderfully dark and eccentric coming-of-age tale." 08/01/2007 p.126 Variety 6 of 10
The royally screwed-up adolescence of Augusten Burroughs has made it to the bigscreen with several nips, tucks and a noticeably duller edge in "Running With Scissors." Writer-director Ryan Murphy strives mightily to capture the bracing hilarity, pathos and surreal incident of Burroughs' bestselling memoir, but this rudderless adaptation never gets a firm grip on the author's deadpan tone or episodic narrative style...[Bening's performance] achieves a level of complexity and coherence that eludes the rest of the film. Modulating expertly between Deirdre's self-pitying rationalizations and explosive fits of temper, the actress channels qualities she's conveyed memorably in her previous roles, from her marital frustration in "American Beauty" to her self-absorbed love of play-acting in "Being Julia." - Justin Chang
San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
In his shocking 2002 memoir "Running With Scissors," Augusten Burroughs described a childhood so hellish it's remarkable he survived to tell the tale. But stories about the mentally disturbed popping pills and engaging in screaming matches don't make for entertaining movies. "Prozac Nation" proved such a downer, it wound up going straight to video...Perhaps with this in mind, director Ryan Murphy works overtime to lighten up his screen adaptation of "Scissors"...With the exception of Paltrow, who barely makes her presence felt, the cast works hard to keep up the momentum of "Running With Scissors." Its flaws are Murphy's fault. He flails around seeking the right tone and never quite finds it. - Ruthe Stein
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