Running with Scissors (2006)

Cast and Crew

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Director

Ryan Murphy

Producer

Jennifer Aniston, Ryan Murphy, Dede Gardner, Brad Grey, Matt Kennedy, Brad Pitt

Screenwriter

Augusten Burroughs, Ryan Murphy

Starring

• Annette Bening as Deirdre Burroughs
• Brian Cox
• Joseph Fiennes
• Evan Rachel Wood as Natalie
• Alec Baldwin as Norman Burroughs
• Jill Clayburgh
• Joseph Cross
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Hope Finch
• Vanessa Redgrave

Movie Story

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"Running With Scissors" is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoirs of 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was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous.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.

Written for the screen and directed by Ryan Murphy, the film stars Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Joseph Cross.

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