It's Kind of a Funny Story: Toronto Profile

HollywoodNews.com is getting ready for the upcoming Toronto Film Festival by profiling a few titles of note.  Sean O'Connell recently took at look at Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's It's Kind of a Funny Story with Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, and Emma Roberts. At the end, they looked forward to the next awards season.

Awards Potential: The Academy could respond favorably to Galifianakis playing against type (his role, based on trailers, seems more serious that, say, Alan Garner from “Hangover”). We’ll know more about Roberts and Gilchrist’s chances at breaking into the supporting categories once we’ve seen the film. Of course, with a very strong performance, Funny Story could easily slip into the Adapted Screenplay (it’s based on Ned Vizzini’s novel of the same name) and/or the Best Director categories.