It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Writers: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Ned Vizzini

Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh

Composers: Broken Social Scene

Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Zoë Kravitz, Thomas Mann, Aasif Mandvi, Bernard White, Lauren Graham, Jim Gaffigan, Jeremy Davies

A 16-year-old New Yorker naïvely relates to us the story of the five days he spent in a psychiatric facility, which he entered voluntarily following suffering vaguely suicidal feelings, telling us of the quirky characters that he met and the life-changing situations that he experienced, thinking of it all as being some kind of adventure, whilst never really seeing the devastated lives that surround him, in this hugely likable, distinctively shot, and strongly acted comedy-drama, which features a particularly eye-catchingly nuanced performance from Galifianakis. Iain.Stott