I just wanted to mention this movie I saw the other day.

Jeremy’s brother Chris and his girlfriend Kelly recommended we watch a movie called Running with Scissors. Kelly is a big fan of the author who wrote the book the movie is based on.

We watched the movie the other day. It was splendid! If you like really fucked up movies then you’ll love this movie! It is based on the true events of the author’s (Augusten Burroughs) childhood.

Here is the plot:

Running with Scissors

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?

• Actors: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin
• Directors: Ryan Murphy

Here is the website for the movie: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/runningwithscissors/