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 No... (Full plot summary below)
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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. He draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?
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| Film Journal InternationalKevin LallyA depressed teenage boy checks himself into a psych ward in this modest but good-hearted comedy. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA rich and unusual film that really defies categorization. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...sort of upper-middle class Precious, an emo flick for self-indulgent white kids who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. |
| KWQC-TV (Iowa)Linda CookHere is the most uplifting, quirky film I've seen in a long time. It brought me joy. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonGilchrist ("United States of Tara") is immensely appealing as a kid who's just a bit too wrapped up in himself to grasp that perhaps his problems aren't insurmountable. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAmbles 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. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe 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." |
| MovielineStephanie ZacharekSometimes, 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIt's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference. |
| Radio TimesDavid AldridgeIt's a fine teen film - and how often do you see those words in the same sentence? |
