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Movie Info

A young Tamil boy growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Deepa Mehta
Producer:

David Hamilton, Howard Shore
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 10, 2020
Runtime:

1h 49m
Production Co:

Array Releasing, Hamilton-Mehta Productions

Cast & Crew

Agam Darshi

Nimmi Harasgama

Ali Kazmi

Seema Biswas

Shivantha Wijesinha

Ruvin De Silva
Anil

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TV Premiere Dates 2020

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Critic Reviews for Funny Boy

All Critics (30) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (6)

While the story soft-pedals the brutal violence between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, the story of a privileged Tamil teen (Brandon Ingram) finding inner peace amid a world of conflict remains touching, tender and memorable.

December 31, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
"Funny Boy" is a luminous coming-of-age tale seen through the eyes of a relatable yet entirely unique experience.

December 12, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Jude Dry
indieWire
Worst of all, it soft-sells the horror of ethnic cleansing, with a climactic neighbourhood massacre reduced to a few broken windows and some offensive chanting.

December 11, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
"Funny Boy" makes the history accessible and relevant in our own incredibly polarized times.

December 11, 2020 | Full Review…

Tracy Brown
Los Angeles Times
Funny Boy falters when trying to link together the personal and political, making for a well-intentioned film that never delivers much depth.

December 10, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roxana Hadadi
RogerEbert.com
"Funny Boy" ambitiously braids internal and external conflict, familial and national strife, to engrossing if somewhat heavily condensed effect.

December 10, 2020 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
Variety
Paradoxically, the film is most engaging when it's a relatively laid-back love story. But it also richly conveys the swift demolition of one's ability to feel safe at home.

January 22, 2021 | Full Review…

Steve Erickson
Nashville Scene
The romance between the teens is tender...and the larger drama of violence provides a valuable backdrop for examining prejudice. This is a beautifully filmed and acted story about the turmoil of sexual, ethnic, religious and class difference.

December 31, 2020 | Full Review…

Gary M. Kramer
Philadelphia Gay News
...a respectable effort with plenty to say about the patriarchy, gender roles, young love and, for good measure, political drama.

December 28, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Lisa Trifone
Third Coast Review
Despite its occasional failings, Funny Boy proves to be a moving retrospective on violence - both the explosive and bloody kind, as well as the intimate, emotional, and quieter violence of family - and the zest for life it so often threatens.

December 23, 2020 | Full Review…

Siddhant Adlakha
The Juggernaut
The film satisfies itself with contrasts that reek of manipulative melodrama.

December 21, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Jose Solís
The Film Stage
This is a beautiful exploration of how a plurality of opinions can both coexist and make a society stronger, while bigotry and fear weaken everybody they touch.

December 19, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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