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Directed by Ryan Murphy ("Eat Pray Love") and adapted from Augusten Burroughs' memoir of the same name, "Running with Scissors" is, on one hand, an eccentric portrait of a turbulent time in the United States. On the other, it deals with themes related to mental illness, though sometimes dangerously lightly. It is saved by its all-star cast, led by the great Annette Bening ("American Beauty") alongside Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to name a few.
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Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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