Funny People
After knowing that he is ill and has about only one year to live, a well-known comedians who enjoys with popularity and fame, struggles against spending the rest of his life in doing good and help other people, so he helps Ira, an upcoming comedian, in order to gain fame before his death.
16 July 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
12 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 June 1984, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
10 November 1970, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
5 August 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 October 1969, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
June 22, 2013
The unique hatred of yourself, and your audience, required of being a comedian is something that Apatow (and Sandler) understand profoundly: That's what this movie is about.
March 22, 2011
For all its qualities Funny People never quite comes together. It can't quite decide who it wants to be about, whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama and in trying to be all things at once it never quite hits its full potential.
August 25, 2009
The good parts of this movie are often wonderful, but Apatow never finds the rhythm to keep it going. It lurches from inspiration to inspiration, but always manages to muddy its feet in mediocrity in between, as it drags on toward the two-and-a-half-hour
October 27, 2010
Funny People may be deeply flawed, but at least it has an accurate title.
August 03, 2009
It walks a perfectly fine line between being funny and tragic.
August 29, 2009
This is a generous, goodhearted, enjoyable movie, loaded with memorable characters and genuine wit. But there's such a thing as giving a little too much.
August 16, 2015
At over two hours, it moves at the dignified pace of a Bergman film rather than, well, a Happy Gilmore or a Waterboy, but the director can rest easy, it's another hit.
August 20, 2009
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) takes some interesting chances in this messy but engaging comedy, which suggests he may yet mature (no, seriously) into a filmmaker of substance.
September 29, 2012
Why does Funny People often feel like a joke without a punchline?
May 06, 2011
Funny People is funny, moving, dramatic, and alternately hilarious. It's a bit like a stand-up dramedy.
February 01, 2011
Apatow draws on his own experience to explore behavioral nuances of people that make us laugh, and it's no secret that being funny is not the same as being happy.
