It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a very entertaining film that suffers from a bad name. The marketing campaign did not help either. Fresh off of the mammoth success of The Hangover this movie’s advertising relied heavily on the fact that it featured Zack Galifinakis. While he is funny in this film and there are many very humorous scenes it is not mainly a comedy. The story follows a young suicidal man who checks himself into a mental hospital thinking he can get helped or medicated quickly and be back in school on Monday. Unfortunately he finds out that he is being admitted for observation and will not be able to leave for at least five days. There he meets a variety of other patients and learns a lot about himself. The main patient he bonds with is a middle aged man who has attempted suicide multiple times and acts as a glimpse of what our young protagonist could become. The man is portrayed by Zach Galifinakis who turns in a very fleshed out and subtle performance. The main thing I walked away thinking was, “Wow, Zach Galifinakis is very good actor, it’s a shame people only want him to play the same weirdo over and over again.”
I recommend this movie for its heart, humor and interesting characters. It plays out like a lighter, younger version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with a dash of a Garden State type romance thrown in.
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