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Funny Ha Ha
Goodbye Cruel Releasing


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Mutual Appreciation

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder, Jennifer L. Schaper, Myles Paige, and Marshall Lewy

When you graduate college you easily sashay into the world of adulthood, start a career, and get serious, right? Wrong. Marnie has left college, but not her drinking habits and her bad taste in bad men. What's more, Marnie can't seem to find a permanent job. It would be sad if it weren't so funny. (Goodbye Cruel Releasing)

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Andrew Bujalski
DIRECTED BY:	Andrew Bujalski
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 16, 2005 Theatrical: April 29, 2005
RUNNING TIME:	89 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Someone to Watch Award (Andrew Bujalski), 2004 Independent Spirit Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Bujalski takes a sledgehammer to the carefully ordered surfaces and dramatic conventions of narrative cinema, favoring instead an unpredictability in which the crosscurrents of quotidian life collide on the screen in a series of brilliantly alive patterns.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

As David Rakoff once wrote, "Youth isn't wasted on the young. It is perpetrated on the young." Exactly how is brilliantly captured by Andrew Bujalski in his debut feature, Funny Ha Ha.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Bujalski celebrates the awkwardness of twentysomething life, allowing Dollenmayer to create a beautifully authentic portrait.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

A smartly observed, unpretentious, and unconventional comedy of manners -- or more properly, it's a comedy of mannerisms.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, an ebullient sliver of a movie, follows a group of men and women in their early 20s, and for once the un-dialogue dialogue doesn't come off as an affectation.

Film Threat Eric Campos

The kind of film that you just don't want to end.

Variety Robert Koehler

A beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film with roots more in Cassavetes than Sundance-style showbiz.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

The final scene is as close to perfection as any Amerindie has come in recent memory--in a single reaction of Marnie's, we see a small but definite shift in perspective; abruptly, Bujalski stops the film, as if there's nothing more to say. It's a wonderful parting shot for a movie that locates the momentous in the mundane.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

It is a small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its passive, quizzical heroine, it is unexpectedly seductive, and even, in its own stubborn, hesitant way, beautiful.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

Funny Ha Ha is often offhandedly funny, and Bujalski has a knack for letting scenes build and then cutting out abruptly, duplicating the flow of a life in flux.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Andrew Bujalski's refreshingly modest look at life in the directionless netherworld between college and career is the rare film that finds its story in the minor contradictions and simple conflicts of ordinary people doing, well, not exactly nothing, but nothing important.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The dialogue is so real that it makes you wince, then laugh.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Like a lot of scenes in Funny Ha Ha, the commonplace somehow seems invigoratingly original.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Bujalski has a knack for the genuine moment.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The look is rough, but Bujalski's talent is evident.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alfonzo B. gave it a6:
Excruciatingly entertaining look at socially inept people struggling in the uncertainty of life. This film is good but Bujalski's follow up Mutual Appreciation is my favorite film right now. There is a wonderful lo-fi feel to this flick but he it just needed some characters with more backbone to fill in it's holes But maybe that is Bujalski's point! Not everyone is openly forthcoming in their emotions.....

Nick G. gave it a3:
pointless rubbish, no directorial qualities to speak of and rambling dialogue which to little if any funny anything.

Marcelo T. gave it a9:
We need people like this guy to bring back long lost indie credibility.

E. R. gave it a10:
Charming, real, totally absorbing film that shows real talent from top to bottom, from upstart young director Bujalski to lead actress Dollenmayer. It's artfully shot despite having virtually no budget; the dialogue is fresh, funny, and absorbing. Anyone who has ever experience those awkward post-college years ought to love this--but really, anyone who appreciates a unique new sensibility on film ought to give it a try.

Dan B. gave it a6:
Whoa. I think the past view reviews are kinda harsh. It's a pretty interesting movie, in that it has a real DIY feel and it aims to show a sort of 20-something life that movies don't usually cover... It's certainly not great. But, y'know.

Ty T. gave it a1:
I honestly was forced to walk out of tthe theatre while watching this movie. It is clear that the critics who rated this film have no idea what they are talking about and should be fired and then removed from the face of the earth. I only gave this film a one because I dont think that it is possible for any film to deserve a zero, however this one came excruciatingly close. HONESTLY not worth your time and/or money. Trust me.

Mick V. gave it a2:
And that's generous, a sort of acknowledgment that yes the director is at least aiming for a sort of feeling. But, my God, what a waste the thing he aims for is. A slice of no life really. Not a single interesting or charming line is uttered in the entire film. Is it possible people could really be so helpless or inarticulate. Only in a film that painfully seeks to mark itself as authentic. A complete waste of time.

Funny Ha Ha Goodbye Cruel Releasing

Funny Ha Ha
Goodbye Cruel Releasing