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Movie Review: Running With Scissors

Running with Scissors covers the period of Burroughs’ disturbed adolescent and teenage years, starting at age twelve. Burroughs is sent to live with his mother’s psychiatrist, Dr. Finch, when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. He lives in dirty conditions, where rules are practically non-existent and children of all ages basically do whatever they want. Burroughs tells Dr. Finch’s adopted 33-year-old son, Neil Bookman, that he is gay. Bookman turns out to be a predatory pederast and forces Burroughs to have oral sex with him. From the age of thirteen to fifteen, Burroughs has an intense and open love affair with Bookman. Neither his psychotic mother nor any member of the Finch family try to stop the relationship. Bookman is besotted with the young boy but later, suddenly disappears and is never to be seen again.

This masterpiece of how one’s life can go terribly wrong if you have the wrong parents in life managed to catch my wife’s (and her sister’s) attention long enough (despite both of them having to read subtitles) to finish it - an accomplishment if you ask me.

final verdict
4 out of 5 stars

seems like a lot of ppl like this title. desperate housewives, nip/tuck and i think another cop serial drama also got the same title.

heh