Running With Scissors is the feature film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' hilarious and poignant childhood memoir. Growing up in the pill-popping 1970s, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents divorce, Augusten's mother sends him to live with her wildly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), and his eccentric extended family. Running With Scissors chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances.
Written and directed by Ryan Murphy, Running With Scissors stars Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Joseph Cross.
Directed by: Ryan Murphy
Screenplay by: Ryan Murphy
Based on the Personal Memoirs of: Augusten Burroughs
Produced by: Dede Gardner
Ryan Murphy
Brad Pitt
Brad Grey
Executive Producer: Steven Samuels
Cast: Annette Bening
Brian Cox
Joseph Fiennes
Evan Rachel Wood
Alec Baldwin
Jill Clayburgh
Joseph Cross
Running With Scissors has been rated R by the MPAA for Strong Language and Elements of Sexuality, Violence and Substance Abuse.
