Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
- husband wife relationship
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- becoming an adult
- therapist
- marriage crisis
- 1970s
- adoption
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joseph Cross
Augusten Burroughs
Annette Bening
Deirdre Burroughs
Brian Cox
Dr. Finch
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hope Finch
- Joseph Fiennes — Neil Bookman
- Evan Rachel Wood — Natalie Finch
- Alec Baldwin — Norman Burroughs
- Jill Clayburgh — Agnes Finch
- Gabrielle Union — Dorothy
- Patrick Wilson — Michael Shephard
- Kristin Chenoweth — Fern Stewart
- Dagmara Dominczyk — Suzanne
- Colleen Camp — Joan
- Jack Kaeding — Six-Year-Old Augusten Burroughs
- Gabriel Guedj — Poo
- Directed
- Ryan Murphy
- Written
- Ryan Murphy
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 265 ratings
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, Plan B Entertainment
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