Product Details

• Actors: Mark Capraro, Jonathan Clermont, Kate Dollenmayer, Sheila Dubman, Thomas Hansen (II)
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009Y25ZU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,537 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Funny Ha Ha" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

This tender and repressed comedy, made on a shoestring budget by the young writer-director Andrew Bujalski, shows Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), a bright but aimless woman on the verge of twenty-four, drifting passionlessly through pointless jobs in a college town with her unmoored fellow-graduates. It is an unlinked chain of missed connections-Mitchell (Bujalski) asks out Marnie, who is into Alex (Christian Rudder), who has a girlfriend. The cleverly diffuse dialogue, with a "like" or an "I mean" in every phrase, reveals a generation struggling to express anything at all besides uncertainty. Like Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, a frigid kleptomaniac who turns out to have seen traumatic things as a child, Bujalski's chilled Marnie seems to have been mentally abused, and the script hints at the villain-television. By casting himself as her persistent admirer, Bujalski winkingly suggests the potential cure for her painful lack of passion: the redemptive power of art.-Richard Brody -Richard Brody
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Product Description

Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true to life relationship comedy; a delightful indie debut masterpiece, August 29, 2005

By	Nathan Andersen "film lover, philosophy profe... (Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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This is the real thing. A genuine indie-flick without the pretentiousness or quirkiness or "big-issue" feel that has pigeonholed the "Sundance" style film. This is just a remarkably fresh and engaging story about a young woman figuring herself out; a film that plays with the ambiguities that comes from an age/culture that doesn't want to judge anybody or anything but where individuals can still be hurt by the actions of others. The dialogue is as perfect and genuine and real and awkward as anything I've seen on film (or in life, in people of this age). I knew people like the characters here in college and grad school, and the story kept me involved and caring about them. I agree with other reviewers that this film is easily as important and interesting as other major indie debuts like Stranger than Paradise, Slackers, Clerks, and Sex Lies and Videotape. Here's hoping that as Andrew Bujalski (and his stellar cast) finds the much-deserved acclaim from this film he doesn't lose the honesty and edge of this simple, low budget masterpiece.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goofy-cute people conducting profoundly casual conversations, July 25, 2005

By	Carter - See all my reviews

Most of the ha-ha's in Funny Ha Ha are not exactly funny: Andrew Bujalski's debut feature is foremost a squirming comedy of recognition. This Boston ultra-indie-which Bujalski wrote, directed, edited, and co-starred in-slouches through the blurry limbo of post-collegiate existence, a period at once ephemeral and cruelly decisive. It opens with 23-year-old heroine Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) stumbling into a tattoo parlor, where the proprietor refuses to ink her because she's plastered. This movie is about the fear of the permanent-and the barely conscious, unwittingly reckless processes behind life-altering decisions-might be subtitled The Possibly Indelible Adventures of a Desultory Twentysomething.

Structured around nonevent and inaction, Funny Ha Ha recalls Jamie Thraves's 2000 British indie The Low Down, a neglected mini-masterpiece of quarter-life malaise. Bujalski's film likewise thrums with ambivalent dread-underlying the characters' inert indecision is a reluctance to let the rest of their lives begin, not least for fear that it might prove an undifferentiated haze. The final scene is as close to perfection as any Amerindie has come in recent memory-in a single reaction of Marnie's, we see a small but definite shift in perspective; abruptly, Bujalski stops the film, as if there's nothing more to say. It's a wonderful parting shot for a movie that locates the momentous in the mundane.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smartly observed film has unpolished charm, July 25, 2005

By	Diana - See all my reviews

It's both obvious and inexplicable why the release of ''Funny Ha Ha" went nowhere for so long. Obvious: The film lacks polish. Inexplicable: That's part of its charm. (Bujalski has a bracingly unadorned style, and Matthias Grunsky's handheld photography is actually quite lovely.) Obvious: The cast is full of amateurs, especially Kate Dollenmayer, the woman playing Marnie, the film's heroine. Inexplicable: She is also one of the most simply complicated movie characters I've ever seen.

One of the beauties of Bujalski's writing and directing is the way little slights resonate with Marnie. She has to hear from Rachel and Dave (Jennifer L. Schaper and Myles Paige) that Alex (Christian Rudder), her longstanding crush, has just broken up with his girlfriend. That's ridiculous: She just ran into him, and he didn't mention that at all. But, as ''Funny Ha Ha" illustrates with great accuracy, that's life.