121minutes • 2006 • USA • In English • Rated R
Dir: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Cross

Based on young Augusten Burroughs’ shocking memoir, “Running with Scissors” features an explosive cast, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Annette Benning, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox and the up and coming Joseph Cross. The film documents the wacky and often tragic events of Burroughs’ (Cross) childhood, as his alcoholic father and mentally unstable mother hand him off to a wildly eccentric family, headed by Dr. Finch, a bizarre therapist with an even stranger extended family.