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Running with Scissors
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate uncomfortable, eccentric coming-of-age stories that balance family trauma with absurd humor and memoir-like candor.
- Tone
- darkly comic, surreal, melancholic
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family dysfunction, coming of age, identity, mental illness, belonging
- Setting
- 1970s, unstable suburban household and eccentric extended family
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