It's Kind of a Funny Story

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  • Opened October 8, 2010 (Limited 10/8)
  • 1 hr 41 min
  • PG-13 | mature thematic issues, sexual content, drug material and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+. More on child suitability

  • In this New York City-set comedy-drama, 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist of “United States of Tara”), stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, checks himself into a mental health clinic. There he learns that the youth ward is closed – and finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), soon becomes both Craig’s mentor and protégé. Craig is also drawn to another 16-year-old, Noelle (Emma Roberts). With a minimum five days’ stay imposed on him, Craig is sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside as he learns more about life, love, and the pressures of growing up. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz
  • Director: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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One of those...

by EchoZol

This is one of those films to remind you why you got out of bed....

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It's Kind of a Funny Story Review

by Derrick Deane

Picture One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but then add in a heavy dose of teen angst. I wasn't quite sure about this movie at first, but Zach Galifianakis and Emma Roberts do a nice job in supporting...

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Ambles along and has a feeling of randomness about it, but, in fact, it's tightly plotted. Every moment, however seemingly haphazard and casually presented, is keyed to the progress of a young man from lost to not so lost. Read full review

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

Sometimes, maybe, it's a little too unoffensive: It's Kind of a Funny Story is so gentle, so anxious not to put a foot wrong, that it doesn't have much sticking power. But its casually compassionate perspective is also what makes it work. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

I don't blame you for backing off a movie that focuses on a suicidal teen who learns warm life lessons by spending five days in a Brooklyn hospital's psych ward. Stop worrying. It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on Ned Vizzini's semiautobiographical novel, breaks the jinx. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

It's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference. Read full review

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Keir Gilchrist as Craig and Zach Galifianakis as Bobby in "It's Kind of a Funny Story."