Funny Ha Ha (2003)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 5
This modest, unpretentious character study astutely captures the emotional states of the 20-something slacker.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
This modest, unpretentious character study astutely captures the emotional states of the 20-something slacker.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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American independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski makes his feature debut as a writer/director with the microbudgeted Funny Ha Ha. Shot on-location in Boston on 16 mm film, the movie is predominately cast with unprofessional actors engaging in realistic discourse. Main character Marnie is played by first-time actress Kate Dollenmayer, a student at CalArts who previously worked on Richard Linklater's Waking Life. Marnie goes about her everyday life with a conflicted love for her friend Alex
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Kate Dollenmayer
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Christian Rudder
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Myles Paige
Dave -
Jennifer L. Schaper
Rachel -
Lissa Patton Rudder
Susan -
Marshall Lewy
Wyatt -
Andrew Bujalski
Mitchell -
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All Critics (41) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)
This is an undoubtedly modest yet wholly pleasurable tale about the difficulties that come with letting go of youth.
Top CriticWith Marnie, Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess.
While the film has a true lived-in feel, and demonstrates a burgeoning talent on the part of its young auteur, its portrait of young slackers lacks the freshness to overcome its all too vivid malaise.
By simply re-creating what he has observed, Bujalski has created a tender, funny and stealthily affecting portrait of youthful powerlessness and frustration.
A beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film with roots more in Cassavetes than Sundance-style showbiz.
It raises so many little questions and offers so many quiet insights that one sitting isn't enough.
Smart, subtle and excruciatingly honest.
Refreshingly unpolished, the film uses pained silences like punctuation.
Not actually that funny ha ha, but a sensitive and unforced little film about the aimlessness of post-graduate life.
Low budget and intimate, perhaps to the point of belonging on the small screen rather than the cinema, its still an intelligent and unpretentious slice of life true American life.
Isn't much more than a promising calling card that should take director, cast and crew to the next level.
One of the most accurate portrayals of post-collegiate disillusionment
Bujalski's subtly well-constructed film reveals a charmingly idiosyncratic sincerity.
If Bujalski's goal was to create a "you are there (and eavesdropping)" sort of narrative, he's done a fine job of it.
(Bujalski's) easy naturalism creates an unexpected comic lightness for something so laced with ambiguity.
The film's acutely composed dialogue is at once disturbingly empty and brutally poignant.
Funny Ha Ha is a jagged bite of real life, shambling about with humor, sadness, boredom, excitement.
Bujalski has a knack for letting scenes build and then cutting out abruptly, duplicating the flow of a life in flux.
Made on so frayed a shoestring that it looks like a Dogma project minus the glitz and about as vacuous as its array of clueless twenty-something characters.
The tagline says, 'This would be sad if it weren't so funny', well guess what, it's not that funny, so it must be sad.
An honest portrait of twentysomething dating -- and one with lots of heart.
Dollenmayer's low-key naturalism is a perfect compliment to the camera's hand-held gaze, presenting a touching combination of amiable nonchalance and emotional yearning.
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It is quite a nice little story, but kind of pointless. I think a lot of people would feel very bored with it's pace and lack of plot. The main actress is likeable and I could relate to her, but definitely could have been a little stronger on story.
Worth a rental, but not one to keep.