She plays a very bad mom in the film adaptation of "Running With Scissors," Augusten Burroughs's funny yet harrowing memoir of his bizarre and troubled childhood.

(Mr. Burroughs's teenage smoking is one of the more wholesome adventures detailed in "Running With Scissors," his best-selling memoir about his bizarre childhood.)

Katurian (Scott Ferrara), a writer of fables with a bizarre childhood of his own, finds himself accused of being the catalyst for three ghoulish incidents involving children, all of which curiously follow the outline of his stories.

In time, their bizarre childhood together will come to seem like a dark prelude to the complications of their adult lives.

A bizarre childhood produced a peculiar adult.

The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

The author recalls her bizarre childhood, during which she was constantly on the move.

Once we get past his bizarre childhood, Hare himself plays a fairly minor role in the book.

The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.