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Based on the best selling, funny yet sad, memoir by Augusten Burroughs which “rewrote the book on traumatic childhoods with...
Based on the best selling, funny yet sad, memoir by Augusten Burroughs which “rewrote the book on traumatic childhoods with its tale of parental abandonment, mental illness, pedophilia”. It's centered around Augusten’s idiosync
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32 %135 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
56 %132,803 reviewsAudience score rating
"Ms. Bening's precise, pitiless tracing of her character's decline from feisty defiance to pathetic, overmedicated self-delusion gives the film an emotional weight it might not otherwise have..."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Too much manic energy runs the movie off the rails..."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"For the most part, Murphy is pitching somewhere between "American Beauty" and "The Royal Tenenbaums"; indeed, the characters Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow play in Scissors are, in a sense, inversions of their roles in Beauty and Tenenbaums, respectively..."
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Premiere Magazine
Premiere Magazine"Murphy, who created the creepy, funny, lunatic "Nip/Tuck," is a master of mordant and macabre camp. But here he loses his teeth, seeming to lack any ironic distance from material that practically begs for it..."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Well-acted by the superb ensemble cast but there just isn't a likeable character amongst them to care about..."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Writer/director Ryan Murphy tends towards an overload of kitsch, making this 'true story' feel somewhat affected, but it's still a trip worth taking..."
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BBC
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Award winner- Golden Globe nomination for Annette Bening 2007.
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
