Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
The events of this movie are ludicrous, and I didn't really care for any of the characters. The story at first seemed to be interesting and somewhat humerous, but that was quickly lost some 45 minutes into the picture. The movie kept going in and out, in and out between entertaining and boring. Alec Baldwin did a fine job with the amount of time he was in the film, as did Evan Rachel Wood and Annette Bening.
