They had grown up together as teenagers in western Massachusetts, in the 1970s and 80s, and Burroughs had spent a great deal of time at her family's house. Wait for video, though.In the summer of 2002, when Theresa Turcotte found out that Augusten Burroughs had written a book that was already a best-seller, she was happy for him. The movie is far from great, but it's worth seeing for the performances. The pop music score is especially amateurish, even worse than the one in The Departed.
Several scenes don't work well at all, especially a completely nonsensical montage mixing three disparate events together, at least one of which doesn't fit into the movie whatsoever. The movie starts falling apart when the drama and comedy don't mix. It does also contain one of the funniest lines of the year, concerning the doctor's private room, which he refers to as his "masturbatorium", read with aplomb by Brian Cox. The movie is often very funny, especially near the beginning, before we realize the tragic aspects of it. The doctor doped Burrough's mother into oblivion and stole all her money, and the child support his father sent. But then, this is supposed to have really happened, so it certainly has a tragic angle to it all.
Oh, and the guy interprets his stool to tell his fortune. The man graduated from Yale, but lives in a hell-hole where nothing is clean, Christmas decorations are kept up all year around, and the doctor's wife eats dog food while watching Dark Shadows. I imagine Augosten Burroughs had a hard time deciding which category his life fit into, as well, if this is how it all went down! The doctor and his family are endlessly quirky. The film has a hard time deciding whether it's a comedy or a drama. He also becomes romantically involved with the doctor's other adopted son (Joseph Fiennes, whom I didn't recognize at all). Augusten (Joseph Cross) lives between his mother and the psychologist, along with his quirky family (Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow and Evan Rachel Wood). After constant fighting with her husband (Alec Baldwin) she becomes entangled with a quack psychologist (Brian Cox), who drugs her up and convinces her to give custody of her son over to him. Burrough's mother (played by Annette Bening) fancied herself a poet.
Amusing but unsatisfying adaptation of Augusten Burrough's autobiography.
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