It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ryan Fleck,
Anna Boden

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4.00

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Synopsis

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Cast

Keir GilchristCraig Gilner
Emma RobertsNoelle
Zach GalifianakisBobby
Viola DavisDr. Eden Minerva
Lauren GrahamLynn Gilner
Jim GaffiganGeorge Gilner
Jeremy DaviesSmitty
Zoë KravitzNia
Bernard WhiteMuqtada
Thomas MannAaron Fitzcarraldo

Recommendations

75
Movieline
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.
75
Entertainment Weekly
It's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference.
75
Chicago Tribune
The result is both a success and a disappointment. It's Kind of a Funny Story, divided into neat little daylong chapters in Craig's stay, lacks the staying power and bittersweet layering of "Half Nelson" and "Sugar."
70
Variety
The filmmakers fully retain their offbeat sensibility and attentiveness to character while providing perhaps the sharpest showcase yet for Zach Galifianakis' outsized talents.
70
Arizona Republic
Gilchrist, Emma Roberts and, especially, Zach Galifianakis, give affecting performances, but they are ultimately let down by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's screenplay.
60
Chicago Reader
A fairly standard coming-of-age story, but the peripheral wackos keep it from feeling too pat. The film inhabits that elusive space between sanity and insanity, where most of life takes place.
50
Orlando Sentinel
Cute, bordering on cutesy, yes. Light and shallow and inconsequential in a lot of ways. But funny? Rarely.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
A dramatically inert, lethargic dramedy that isn't nearly as quirky and poignant is it perceives itself.