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
- 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.
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