This Fall Running with Scissors May Be Unsafe Yet Riveting

I love Annette Bening.

This is an actress who, as best evidenced by her most recent turns in American Beauty and Being Julia, is long overdue an Academy Award.

If the trailer for this fall’s Running with Scissors – an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ memoir written and directed by Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy – is any indication, she may finally take an Oscar home next year.

In the film, young Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he is handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Match Point’s Brian Cox) and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

Running with Scissors opens Oct. 11. It co-stars Evan Rachel Wood (The Upside of Anger), Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jill Clayburgh.

Photo: TriStar Pictures.