Running with Scissors (film)

Running with Scissors is a 2006 American black comedy film based on Augusten Burroughs 2002 memoir of the same name, written and directed by Ryan Murphy, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Augusten finds it hard to adjust to living with the doctors family, and is subject to irregular weekend visits by his increasingly unsound mother. After confessing to Natalie that he is gay, Augusten befriends Neil Bookman Joseph Fiennes, Finchs adopted 33yearold son. The two begin an erratic sexual relationship quickly after meeting, but Augusten finds it difficult to cope with their age difference.Finch manipulates Deirdre into signing over her money to him. Deirdre finds temporary stability with her living companion Dorothy Ambrose Gabrielle Union, but Augusten feels like his mother no longer wants him, and deals with the negative effects of Neils schizophrenia. ........

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