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- 2022
- R
- A24
- 1 h 26 m
- 2022
- R
- A24
- 1 h 26 m
Summary When Robert, a high school student and aspiring cartoonist, rejects the comforts of suburban life, dropping out of school and leaving home, he finds an unwilling teacher and unwitting friend in Wallace — a former low-level comic artist.
Directed By: Owen Kline
Written By: Owen Kline
- 2022
- R
- A24
- 1 h 26 m
- 2022
- R
- A24
- 1 h 26 m
Funny Pages
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Summary When Robert, a high school student and aspiring cartoonist, rejects the comforts of suburban life, dropping out of school and leaving home, he finds an unwilling teacher and unwitting friend in Wallace — a former low-level comic artist.
Directed By: Owen Kline
Written By: Owen Kline
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Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
73
84% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
16% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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A lot of movies are funny, but very few are funny on a cellular level. Few announce themselves as something different from the very first frames. Even most good comedies are mostly built from familiar situations and people, but Funny Pages is that rare breed; bewildering and strange before its characters even begin speaking and projecting its inherent twistedness with every aspect of its construction.
Funny Pages is a beguiling debut, but it’s also one of the most compelling and unique takes on the coming-of-age genre in years.
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What an auspicious debut for Kline and what a fine showcase for all other parties.
It has an unpredictability that keeps you on your toes and a bitter pathos that gives every laugh (of which there are many) a note of tragic despair.
Owen Kline’s script is boisterous, funny, and very much committed to the bit. This is a movie about junior independence, after all, about a slightly full-of-himself young talent who’s journeying out on his own for the first time. So Kline makes sure the journey is memorable.
This lack of generosity toward the supporting players is one of the movie’s major weaknesses. The other is that the episodic story leads to no significant discovery, either narrative or psychological.
Whatever sense of obsession drives Robert’s art and whatever emotional freedom inspires Miles’s, neither is found in the cinematic aesthetic of “Funny Pages”; the movie is merely a conventional vessel for Kline’s ardent ideas, which pass through the cinema without leaving a trace.
Production Company
Elara Pictures
Release Date Aug 26, 2022
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating R
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Awards
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination
