MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG-13
101 minutes

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format: 35mm

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

FREE admission, sponsored by Active Minds @ MIT. There will be a discussion on depression between showings, moderated by MIT clinicians Simon Lejeune and Haleh Rokni. The first 50 people at the 7pm show will get FREE DINNER during the discussion, catered by BGood!

Adapted from Ned Vizzini's 2006 novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story tells the story of burnt-out teenager Craig (Keir Gilchrist), who checks himself into a mental health clinic citing exhaustion, and finds himself placed in the adult ward due to the fact that the youth ward has been shut down. Taken under the wing of fellow patient Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), the stressed-out 16-year-old attempts to endure his mandatory five days' stay without completely losing his mind. His predicament is made somewhat more tolerable by the presence of Noelle (Emma Roberts), another teenage patient who's struggling to sort out her thoughts. Academy Award nominee Viola Davis, Lauren Graham, and Jim Gaffigan co-star. [www.allrovi.com]

Galifianakis is a comic force of nature, but he digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.
      -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Read this review.