Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 6, 2007
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dubbed - French, Portuguese, Spanish - Optional
- Subtitles - Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish - Optional
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Reviews
It's a story populated by characters not people, all displaying wildly antisocial behaviors for the seeming purpose of giving the teenage Burroughs something to write about when older. It may be factual but it is not truth.
For every aspect that is depressing, there something that is fresh and uplifting, and it is credit to writer director Ryan Murphy for capturing the mood of Burroughs' book so faithfully.
The excruciating display of bohemian spoils wears the word "delightful" in quotation marks, with a theatre accent.
The first half rolls along like an excitable child hoping to entertain with each new stunt. But it loses the book's dark humour. Running with Scissors? More like a stumble.
Running With Scissors has a great cast and an appropriately chaotic nature, but it never really adds up to anything and fails to hit its emotional targets.
In its attempt to capture Burroughs' wacky, often wrenching teen years, the film is unified mainly by an impulse toward overstatement.
Well-acted by the superb ensemble cast but there just isn't a likeable character amongst them to care about.
I had hoped, I guess, that the film would do justice to the book, but sadly that is not the case. If I were you, go out and spend the money on the paperback, curl up and give yourself over to the wacky world Burroughs' creates. It'll be more fulfilling th
Murphy's adaptation is bright, lively and fast-paced, but the movie is relentless in its outlandishness.
We can really feel writer-director Murphy straining for both wacky hilarity and touching emotion. And never quite getting there.
Running With Scissors is alternately grating and boring, as deadly a combo as one could imagine sitting through for two unendurable hours.
This has been watered down to be more like Walking with Plastic Spoons.
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