Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 116 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Ryan Murphy
Stars: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening and Evan Rachel Wood
IMDb score:
6,1 (23.707)
Releasedate: 27 October 2006
Running with Scissors plot
"Do not disturb them. They already are."
True-fact-based story about a boy who was given away by his mother and grew up with a strange psychiatrist who looked like Santa Claus. At 12, the boy lives in the midst of the psychiatrist's bizarre family and befriends the pedophile, who lives in the backyard. Family life has no rules and is full of psychological contradictions, Valium and therapies.
Actors and actresses
Augusten Burroughs
Deirdre Burroughs
Dr. Finch
Hope Finch
Neil Bookman
Natalie Finch
Norman Burroughs
Agnes Finch
Dorothy
Michael Shephard
Reviews & comments
K. V.
-
- 4376 messages
- 3777 votes
A bit of a special movie 
A mix of drama and comedy. More comedy in the beginning and much more drama towards the end.
I also thought the soundtrack was worth mentioning.
It's a pity that the well-known cast couldn't make a great film out of it. Certainly not a must see (better one to catch on TV), but you have to be a bit for it
Translated from Dutch · View original
Insignificance
-
- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
Dark humor. Film is somewhat like a hard kick in the crotch of people who, because of luxury problems, are all too happy to go to the psychiatrist's couch, while in the meantime they have completely lost their grip on the everyday, important things, education for example.
Mother, then, who dreams of fame, but with her erratic behavior she ruins her family and herself. With some help from the shrink, who has a pill for everything and is not afraid to prescribe an attempted suicide to his patients. It goes from shredded to shredded.
The film is nicely decorated, for example color plays an important role, but it gradually falls into the same pattern, where the more subtle, subtle jokes seem to drown in the eccentric world of the patriarch. It ranks from less to even less and sporadically.
From a masturbatory (yes, nice) to a vertical turd (no, too clumsy). It must also be because it doesn't really catch on dramaturgically, like during the scream scene. Well acted, but there is no question of a click with the stuff. It bleeds out a bit over time.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Robi
-
- 2538 messages
- 2531 votes
Oh, I actually thought this movie would be better appreciated and also a lot more famous. A pretty strange story about a boy and his domineering mother and her psychiatrist. The special film looks nice, although the story is also somewhat boring and I had trouble keeping my attention constantly. But it is beautifully designed with often beautiful decors and there is also clever use of well-known beautiful music here and there. I'll just have to watch the movie again when I'm a little more rested and in a better mood for a movie like this. Let's see what I really think of it.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Trending Movies
Corporate & Media
Realtimes Network
Innovatieweg 20C
7007 CD, Doetinchem, Netherlands
+31(315)-764002
