Running with Scissors
(2006)
★ 5.8 IMDb · 265 votes
Year: 2006
Runtime: 122 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Райан Мёрфи
Cast: Джозеф Кросс, Аннетт Бенинг, Брайан Кокс, Гвинет Пэлтроу, Джозеф Файннс, Эван Рэйчел Вуд, Алек Болдуин, Джилл Клейбёрг, Габриэль Юнион, Патрик Уилсон
Plot
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?