# Running with Scissors (2006)

> A troubled teenager finds an unlikely path toward adulthood after being placed in his psychiatrist's bizarre household.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/3847

## Facts

- Runtime: 122 min
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Director: Ryan Murphy
- Cast: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh
- TMDB rating: 5.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439289/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Mood: darkly comic, unsettling, melancholic, thoughtful movie night, memoir adaptation night

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