Finch, Deirdre’s unconventional therapist with an unusual home, peculiar tactics and an oddball family. Augusten’s life begins to collapse around him, as his melodramatic mother Deirdre loses touch with reality and becomes dependent on valium, and his father Norman withdraws from the family and retreats into alcoholism. Viewers might be offended by the film’s language and treatment of controversial topics such as pedophilia, homosexuality and drug addiction, but the movie gets the job done it successfully transfers the meat of Burroughs’ story into a well-crafted and enjoyable film and more importantly, the filmmakers handled a distressing and at times heart-wrenching story with a sense of humor and appreciation of life’s oddities, following in the footsteps of Burroughs’ memoirs.įrom start to finish, it seems a truly unbelievable story. “Running With Scissors” is a film adaptation of the personal memoirs of Burroughs, in which he documented true events so exceptional he wrote, “Dear journal … somebody has to write down what’s happening to me, it’s not to be believed.”
Set to an eclectic but enjoyable soundtrack and brought to life by colorful characters and sarcastic dialogue, the insanity and mayhem that was Augusten Burroughs’ adolescence easily transitions to the big screen.
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