This movie is perfectly named. Watching it really felt like Running with Scissors. This film has some great performances and some wonderful moments (check out the stills on imdb), but it's still painful. Annette Benning stars as a dysfunctional mother married to absent alcholic father Alec Baldwin. She abandonds her misfit teenaged son with her even crazier shrink and his family including Gwyneth Paltrow. This film tries to combine the non-stop dry humor of The Royal Tenenbaums and the mysticism of the magic Magnolia only to fall flat on it's face. It's major saving grace is that it's a true story. I wonder if I would have liked it more had I known that at the beginning. Jim & I almost walked out, and we saw another couple leave. By the way, I think this shot is an homage to the absolutely brilliant Harold & Maude (if you haven't seen this one, run, don't walk, to your nearest video store).Running with Scissors opens nationwide on 10/27/06.
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