It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

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

Directors:

Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Writers:

Anna Boden (screenplay), Ryan Fleck (screenplay),

Stars:

Keir Gilchrist, Dana DeVestern, Zach Galifianakis

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Keir Gilchrist	...	Craig
Dana DeVestern	...	Alyssa (as Dana De Vestern)
Lauren Graham	...	Lynn
Jim Gaffigan	...	George
Karen Chilton	...	Nurse Harper
Zach Galifianakis	...	Bobby
Aasif Mandvi	...	Dr. Mahmoud
Jared Goldstein	...	Ronny
Alan Aisenberg	...	Scuggs
Zoë Kravitz	...	Nia
Thomas Mann	...	Aaron
Jeremy Davies	...	Smitty
Rosalyn Coleman	...	Monica / 'Under Pressure' Nurse #1
Viola Davis	...	Dr. Eden Minerva
Lou Myers	...	Jimmy

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?

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Plot Keywords:

psychiatric ward | insight | therapy | preparatory school | mental illness | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic issues, sexual content, drug material and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 January 2011 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

5 giorni fuori

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£82,056 (UK) (7 January 2011)

Gross:

£82,056 (UK) (7 January 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Focus Features, Wayfare Entertainment, Misher Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where Craig describes other classmates of his, when it shows him you can see he's reading the book 'Be More Chill' by Ned Vizzini, who also wrote 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'.

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Goofs

When Craig first encounters Bobby in the waiting room at the hospital at the beginning of the movie Bobby asks him why he is "in the hospital alone in the early hours of Sunday morning?" Later on in the film Craig narrates that he has been in the psychiatric ward since the previous Saturday.

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Quotes

Craig: Take my dad. I just saw him today, like... and he knows I'm here 'cause I'm stressed out, but he still brings up the Gates application. It's, like, "Get a clue, Dad. There's something bigger going on here."
Dr. Eden Minerva: And what's that?
Craig: I don't know. But it feels big.

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Connections

Featured in Great Movie Mistakes III: Not in 3D (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Check Me Out"
Written by Jimmy McCracklin
Performed by Little Denise
Courtesy of Ubiquity Records
By Arrangement with Sugaroo!

User Reviews

Great Acting, Script, and all around movie

The real treat about this movie is the performance from Zach Galifianakis and Emma Roberts. Both of them do a superb job, and left me wanting even more. The entire script is actually funny, and I mean funny as in you will be giggling the entire movie. This movie just makes you feel good, it makes you want to experience life even more. It has a great message, and keeps to the plot of the book a lot better then most adapted screenplays. Going back to the acting performance though, it really is something. While Zach Galifianakis usually plays the oddball in blockbuster comedies, he does a FANTASTIC job being a psych ward patient who is absolutely hilarious. Emma Roberts shocked me, to be honest. I've only seen her in Nancy Drew and a small glimpse in her Tween TV show "Unfabulous" in which her acting was borderline on being downright awful. In this movie, she completely breaks out of that role, and jumps into one that the people who aren't the ages of 10-13 and female will actually like! Several times during the movie i honestly didn't believe it was the same girl. She really does a great job. The bottom line is that this movie is great. It's not the best, but it is a movie worth seeing that has a very good story and great acting to complement it. See. This. Movie.