Augusten Burrough's best-selling Me Decade memoir of a misbegotten adolescence spent shuttling between his manic-depressive mother and her psychiatrist is horrifying and almost too terrible to be entirely true; toned down and tamed for the screen, it's just a John Irving-esque romp about a colorful, quirky family. Augusten (Joseph Cross) is young, gay and on the verge of becoming a full-blown obsessive compulsive. If things weren't complicated enough, Deirdre (Annette Bening), the grandiose, narcissistic mother he worships, and Norman (Alec Baldwin), the alcoholic father he hardly knows, are on the verge of divorce. When Dad finally splits, Deirdre deposits Augusten ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins