Outraged, Grace convinces her father to leave her there with enough of his muscle to free the slaves. She sets about creating a just society on the plantation — drawing up legal documents to entitle equal ownership of the enterprise, enslaving the white family in revenge and educating everyone about the principles of democracy.

Running With Scissors is almost indistinguishable from the bevy of other Independent Quirky Family ComediesѢ like The Chumscrubber and Little Miss Sunshine.

With a bigger budget and more confidence placed in him by Fox, director Tim Story delivers bigger effects and more of them, but no amount of pixel engineering can save a by-numbers plot and some of the worst dialogue since Star Wars Episode I.