The 16-year-old Craig Gilner tells the story. Craig tries to live as a teenager, but he is a normal teenager but he may be in a violent confrontation with the requirements of an exotic teenager, realizing he is in a suicidal state. After a while, Craig himself threw himself into a psychiatric clinic for psychological treatment immediately after it happened to return to a new beginning.
27 December 1982, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20 July 1965, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
5 March 1966, Bombay, India
28 November 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
7 July 1966, Chesterton, Indiana, USA
22 December 1931, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
21 November 1972, Middleboro, Massachusetts, USA
13 October 1947, USA
8 June 1959, Colombo, Sri Lanka
28 September 1992, London, England, UK
18 April 1968, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA
26 September 1935, Cabin Creek, West Virginia, USA
8 March 1936, New York, New York, USA
10 February 1991, Rhinebeck, New York, USA
12 June 1989, New York City, New York, USA
August 15, 2011
Galifianakis [is] able to turn on a dime; balancing his disarming humour with moments of anguished outbreaks. His is one of the best supporting performances of recent memory; equally funny and heartbreaking. If only I could say the same of the movie.November 06, 2010
The journey is aided immeasurably by the casting of Keir Gilchrist as young Craig. He has dark, sensitive eyes and a probity about him that wins you to his side.October 15, 2010
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film's co-writing-directing team, are too principled to tip the film into the slacker reaches of sorrow.January 31, 2011
It's Kind of a Funny Story lacks substance, but after you've spent a short time in this ward, you have to agree with Craig: These crazies aren't so bad.October 11, 2010
The writing-directing team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have created a solid mix of serious, darker scenes and flights of fancy.March 31, 2011
...runs out of steam about half way through but with a likable cast and an interesting setup you'll want to finish what you started.February 01, 2011
It's also a kind of two-dimensional romance, a kind of flippant look at life on a mental ward, and (...) kind of made me want to give Zach Galifianakis a hug.April 04, 2011
It may not be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it's also not Patch Adams.July 14, 2011
For all its problems, though, the film is easy-going, frequently channels into a sweet-natured tone and is able to raise a few chuckles.January 27, 2011
The film's central element -- its sensitive exploration of a young teen's emotional confusion -- creates strong audience empathy, however, and gives Fleck and Boden a fertile focus for their signature light-hearted humanist storytelling.January 05, 2011
A pleasant movie, but no more.October 11, 2010
The acting is strong, with Galifianakis doing an especially good job as the likeable Bobby.