would possess a parent to take six pre-pubescent boys between the ages of eight and thirteen to see Running with Scissors?
AMC Loews Waterfront did screw up by posting the incorrect rating for the movie, but even if it had been a PG-13 film, allowing an eight year old to see it?
It became apparent, early on, that this particular group of kids were not mature enough to watch this film. They talked loudly all through the previews. They provoked open hilarity amongst the adult movie goers when one of the kids pronounced Venus as "Venice". They continued to talk through the opening scenes, provoking one patron to tell them to shut up. They giggled during the first three uses of the word "fuck" in the dialogue of the movie.
It was around this point that the father wised up and began his efforts to extract the kids from the theater. Which provoked a great deal of conversation between the oldest child and the father, as the kids were having a grand time ruining the movie for the rest of us.
But leave they did, shortly before the first use of a word referencing a part of the female anatomy, the drugs and a (tasteful and hysterically funny) depiction of Augusten's first homosexual experience.
What did you think of the movie, Jenn? I was dying to see it, then put off by some negative reviews.
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