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Running with Scissors

Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre
Running with Scissors (MA15+) 121 mins
Synopsis: Based on Augusten Burrough's personal memoir 'Running with Scissors'is at once a blistering comedy and a deeply moving human drama, that tells the story of a warped, out-of-control, 70s-era coming of age, crafting a strikingly universal story about the strange power of families, the wonderment of childhood, the madness of adulthood and the revelation of finding your way in spite of it all.

The movie begins in 1971 as the neatness-obsessed but sharply observant 6 year-old Augusten (Joseph Cross) finds himself trapped between his troubled parents: his mother Deirdre (Annette Bening) an unstable, confessional poet with delusions of being hugely famous, and his father Norman (Alec Baldwin), an alcoholic math professor.

When the Burroughs' marriage goes to pieces, Deirdre signs up for therapy with the eccentric Dr Finch (Brian Cox), a highly unconventional shrink who takes the family under his wing. From the beginning, Augusten is suspicious of Dr Finch's peculiarities - his office includes, among other oddities, a Masturbatorium where the good doctor goes to relax in the middle of tedious sessions. But when Dr Finch fails to save the Burroughs' marriage, Augusten's life takes an even more wrenching turn. While Deirdre is packed off to a motel to continue her Valium-aided thera, Augusten is sent to live in the Finch family home - a kind of Brady-Bunch-gone-bad world where for some dog food is a snack, sedatives are consumed like candy and grand prophecies emerge from the bathroom.

Reviews:'Bening is so captivating you cannot look away'- Stephen Hunter WASHINGTON POST

'Monstrously entertaining'- VARIETY
Director:Ryan Murphy
Cast:Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh & Joseph Cross.
Origin:US
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Distributor:Sony Pictures
Rating Advice:Strong course language, Strong Themes
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