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Title: Gag me!
Review: I checked out this unpleasant little film from the library. You can thank me for that, since now you don't have to watch it. Based on the popular Augusten Burroughs memoir and marketed as a comedy, "Running with Scissors" is a rambling, grueling portrait of an unlikeable, dysfunctional band of narcissistic crazies who relentlessly and cruelly abuse themselves and each other. It's a catalog of over-the-top stereotypes about mental illness, a waste of good acting talent, a thoroughly exhausting experience, and two hours of my time down the dumper. The original memoir, which I haven't read, may be a good book, but if so, it's been utterly butchered in the process of adaptation. I can't even imagine sitting through this mess again, much less paying for the DVD!
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