Still, Fiennes stands out as the heartbreaking, terrifying, oddly tender, rampantly sexy, troubled, volatile, and delusional 35-year-old psychiatric patient who becomes the first lover of 14-year-old Burroughs (Joseph Cross). Adapted from the book and directed by gay Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, the film also stars a who's who of the acting world that includes Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Evan Rachel Wood.

Audiences will rediscover him in Running With Scissors, the big-screen version of Augusten Burroughs's hair-raisingly funny memoir of growing up in the '70s with a wildly unstable mother who adopted him out to her crackpot psychiatrist and his bizarre extended family. That's mostly because of some spotty follow-up films like Enemy at the Gates, Killing Me Softly, and The Great Raid. Eight years later, despite his slow-burning screen mojo, soulful-eyed looks, and impressive acting chops, Fiennes isn't quite a household name. Most moviegoers, gay and straight, took a good, long look at Joseph Fiennes in the Oscar-winning films Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love and figured him for a big new movie star. APA style: Running from stardom: Joseph Fiennes's star is on the rise again, thanks to a role as the real-life lover of author Augusten Burroughs in this fall's Running With Scissors.Running from stardom: Joseph Fiennes's star is on the rise again, thanks to a role as the real-life lover of author Augusten Burroughs in this fall's Running With Scissors.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'Running from stardom: Joseph Fiennes's star is on the rise again, thanks to a role as the real-life lover of author Augusten Burroughs in this fall's Running With Scissors.' The Free Library.

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