Running With Scissors

Screen newcomer Joseph Cross portrays Augusten Burroughs in director Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of author Burroughs' best-selling personal memoir of the same name. A child of the 1970s whose alcoholic father Norman (Alec Baldwin) and delusional, unpublished poet mother Deidre (Annette Benning) ...more

Generally speaking, bad movies can be divided into two categories: movies that are too flawed to be called successes, and movies that are too torturous to be called anything but failures. Dividing its runtime between the awkwardly uncomfortable and the tediously boring, Running with Scissors undeniably fits into the latter. The central problem with the film is that nothing about the script can succeed on its own: it's built exclusively on painful and delicate subject matter. You're going to need ...more