Feel Good Films
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010, PG-13, 102 min.) You wouldn’t think a movie set in a mental health hospital could be a comedy. However, this well-crafted touching film tells the story of 16-year-old who checks himself into a psychiatric ward because of his depression. The hospital is not a scary place and the patients are not portrayed as “mad” or “insane”—it’s a safe place where people struggling are getting help, and using humor as a relief from the serious conditions that brought them there.
