Holiwood movie : It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. It follows a depressed young man who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. A film adaptation, directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, will be released on September 24, 2010.