"Running with Scissors" *** (out of four): "Nip/Tuck" writer-director Ryan Murphy's delightfully smart adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' popular memoir.
“What would we be without our difficult childhoods", sighs Dr. Marion Finch in one of his few thoughtful moments. Dr Finch (the always enjoyable Brian Cox), is one of the many eccentrically quirky characters in Ryan Murphy’s delightful adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ popular memoir. And truly Mr. Burroughs was both blessed and cursed if any of “Running with Scissors” is to be believed. While he came out with some great material, his was truly a childhood to be pitied. After his parents divorce – his father was an alcoholic, his mother a delusional poet – young Augusten is forced to live with his mother’s psychiatrist and his wacky, cobbled together family. What happens from there I’ll leave to the film.
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Can't wait for this. It was one of the funniest books I've read.