It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2010

It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2010
PG-13 | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8 October 2010 (USA)

Storyline:

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend’s girl. When he realizes he’s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they’ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he’s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic issues, sexual content, drug material and language

User review:

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best writer / director team working in film today. Both Half Nelson and Sugar (Which made my top 5 for 2008) were good and here they go more mainstream and produce a simple yet vibrant low-fi comedy. If you go expecting the Hangover, a full on comedy, then this might take some adjusting to – it is more than that. It reminded us most of the same vibe Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist had.

Craig (Keir Gilchrist) is an angsty teen and checks himself into a psych ward for 5 days. He is excellent, like a cross between Justin Long and Michael Cera and should get good work off the back of this. Here Craig meets the wizened Bobby (Zack Galifianakis), who has a complete emotional range here, his hangdog is perfect and watched closely you’ll see every thought and facial gesture with real pleasure, and a teenage girl his age, Noelle (Emma Roberts). The supporting cast have groupworked this really well and it all just gels nicely. The film is a journey of self- discovery.

What lifts this is it doesn’t have a mean bone in its body yet delivers beautifully – this film is firstly, optimistic about pessimism and abounds with humor, laughter, and originality, and secondly, Fleck again coxes the the actors to simply act, without excess.

It does a wonderful balancing act of making us see the world afresh too. In addition to all this it is totally refreshing to see a teen movie that is about teens and their world and not just another slapstick sex comedy.

I could only wish for 20 films a year like this, rather than the cookie cutter production values that govern Hollywood. The common trait in all three films are honesty, struggle, and eventually, something more. That’s three in a row for Fleck / Boden – and I, for one, can’t wait to see the fourth…

Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Writers: Anna Boden (screenplay), Ryan Fleck (screenplay)
Stars: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 8 October 2010 (USA)
Filming Locations: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804497/

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 7.93 GiB
Duration : 1 h 41 min
Overall bit rate : 11.2 Mb/s
Writing application : x264.exe
Writing library : mkv2rls v1.3 (date: 2010 aug 28)

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