Running With Scissors Golden Globe Award Nominee

Golden Globe Award nominated film, Running with Scissors was released in the year 2006. The film was directed by Ryan Murphy. The movie is based on a similarly titled book, which is semi-autobiography of the author, Augusten Burroughs. The film won the Satellite Award for Best Actor and was nominated at the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an actress. The film stars Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow and many more.

Running with Scissors is about a teenage boy, Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross). The child has an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, who thinks herself as a very talented poet on the verge of fame. She gives away her child to her unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. He is an eccentric man with eccentric family, which includes his tightly wounded daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow).

The film Running with Scissors is based, when the child Augusten is 12 years of age. He finds himself living in a Victorian Squalor with the Doctors bizarre family. The atmosphere in the house is totally crazy without any rules. The Christmas tree is kept up all the year round. The housemates consume as though they are candy and use electro-shock therapy machine for treatment and entertainment.

In the film, Running with Scissors, Augusten finds a kind spirit in Finchs youngest daughter Natalie and finds motherly support from Finchs long suffering wife. Augusten regularly records the events of his life in his journals as a means of coping with his unusual childhood. He finds ways of avoiding school and starts taking big decisions at a tender age of 15.

Running with Scissors takes an unusual turn, when Augustens mothers mental illness worsens. He befriends Finchs 33 year old adopted son, Neil Bookman. He introduces Augusten into the world of love and they start an open and consensual sexual relationship. The film ends with Bookman hovering over a sleeping Finch, with a pair of scissors in his hands.

The film Running with Scissors diverges from the book on which it is based on several important points. In the book the prime character progresses through adolescence but the films character ages only 12 to 15. The film also shies away from the numerous sexual aspects on the book.

The film Running with Scissors is based on personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. It is wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood. The film was partly produced by Brad Pitt, who was once engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow. This film also reunited her with Joseph Fiennes, who was her co-star in the Oscar winning film Shakespeare in Love. Wikipedia