Joseph Cross and Annette Bening as Augusten and Deirdre Burroughs in Running with Scissors

Stumbling with Nail Clippers

The Box Office Belletrist

[30 November 2006]

by Jennifer Makowsky

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It was one of the most talked about tomes upon its release. Unfortunately, our literary liaison for all things film thinks that Augusten Burrough's mesmerizing memoir was definitely defanged in the cinematic translation.

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