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  1. Running with Scissors (2006) - * Deirdre Burroughs: I'm unhappy. * Norman Burroughs: I'm unhappy. * Dr. Finch: Norman. If you're so unhappy, why stay in this marriage? * Norman Burroughs: I don't know why. My son. * Dr. Finch: I don't think that's why you stay, Norman. I think you stay because it's comfortable. It's what you know.

  2. This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Running with Scissors.

  3. Plot summary. Running with Scissors covers the period of Burroughs' adolescent years, beginning at age 12 after a brief overview of his life as a child. Burroughs spends his early childhood in a clean and orderly home, obsessing over his clothes, hair, accessories, and having great potential, with his parents constantly fighting in the background.

  4. Running With Scissors. As the son of an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a mentally ill mother (Annette Bening), young Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) faces a challenging childhood at...

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  5. This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Running with Scissors. Print Word PDF

  6. Oct 20, 2006 · Directed by Ryan Murphy. Comedy, Drama. R. 1h 56m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 20, 2006. Like its source, Augusten Burroughs’s best-selling memoir, the new movie “Running With Scissors” is by turns...

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  8. Apr 1, 2010 · The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with...