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Year: 2010
USA: Focus Features
UK: Universal Pictures International (UK)
Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Lauren
Graham, Jim Gaffigan, Zoë Kravitz, Zach Galifianakis, Dana
DeVestern, Karen Chilton, Aasif Mandvi, Jared Goldstein, Alan
Aisenberg, Thomas Mann, Jeremy Davies, Rosalyn Coleman, Lou Myers
Directors: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Country: USA
USA & UK: 101 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic issues, sexual content,
drug material and language
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language &
references to sex, drugs and suicide
USA Release Date: 8 October 2010 (Limited Release - New York
and Los Angeles)
UK Release Date: 7 January 2010
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Synopsis
What’s a 16 year-old boy doing playing music and table tennis with
adult psychiatric patients – on a school day? It’s kind of a
funny story…
Adapted from Ned Vizzini’s novel of the same name, this
comedy-drama from acclaimed writer/directors Ryan Fleck & Anna
Boden (HALF NELSON, SUGAR) follows a 16 year-old teenager Craig
Gilner (Keir Gilchrist) as he cycles to a mental health clinic for
therapy. Craig is intelligent but stressed out from being a teenager
and checks himself into a local hospital. Finding the youth ward
temporarily closed, the psychiatrist has him transferred to the
adult ward.
With a minimum five days’ stay imposed on him by the adult
ward’s staff psychiatrist Dr Eden Minerva (Viola Davis), Craig
meets Bobby (Zach Galifianakis -THE HANGOVER), who quickly becomes
both Craig’s mentor and protégé. He is also attracted to the
sensitive Noelle (Emma Roberts - upcoming SCREAM 4), who just might
make him forget his longtime unrequited crush Nia (Zoë Kravitz -
upcoming X-MEN: FIRST CLASS).
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