Dysfunction Junction
- Title: Running with Scissors
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It’s not Little Miss Sunshine, (read that review here), it doesn’t have its heart, but Running with Scissors does present wildly entertaining moments about a collection of some of the most screwed-up people you’re likely to view together in a film. It’s a journey of one sane individual who finds himself trapped in an increasingly insane world.
Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) is surrounded by insanity. His father (Alec Baldwin) lives at the bottom of a bottle distraught over his wife’s insanity, and his mother (Annete Bening) believes herself to be America’s next great poet – except she can’t seem to get published by even the smallest journals.
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