Review of Running with Scissors (2006) by Scarlet R — 14 Oct 2009
A weird kinda film and very strange to any disfunctional person or family group that havent had any contact with the even more disfuctional profession of therapy educated in sycology and mentel health counciling.
Based on the true memoirs of a youth, the teenage/young adult son of a famously controversal, unsuccsessful poet/writer and an alcohol abusing father. After a parentel split up he is left in the care of his mothers therapist, at the height of presciption drug abuse in the 70`s and 'valium motherhood' question was answered. The therapists house was a gaggle of girls and a 'suffering mum'.
He grew homosexual tendansies experiencing love expression experimentation with an older guy when is also part of the Dr`s client list, apart from his direct family that is.
Struggling through recession timesand his mothers infamous.. lfe and its followers/ing , he learns what he can, about getting up and on his own two feet without a Dad ever there after age 15yrs.
A lot of strong femminine issues while the Dr, trying to keep as much masculene gentry amoungst irrational situations asserting an awefully eccentric appearance (how others would see him as..).
A stella cast and a directioal jugger-naught causing a difficulty of a semblance of a continum with the adolescent material to work with.
A really good job from Annett Benning a supurb actress and some good work from Joseph Cross (the son... ?The Star?) ha ha. Also a familiar face portraying the 'eccentric Dr Finch' effortlessly. Please have an eye out for the gay man. I had trouble finding his talent, though new it was there.
This review of Running with Scissors (2006) was written by Scarlet R on 14 Oct 2009.
Running with Scissors has generally received mixed reviews.
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