A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

George is a very successful stand up comedian who learns that he has an untreatable blood disorder and is given less than a year to live. Ira is a struggling up-and-coming stand up comedian who works at a deli and has yet to figure out his onstage persona. One night, these two perform at the same club and George takes notice of Ira. George hires Ira to be his semi-personal assistant as well as his friend.

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend s girl. When he realizes he s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend s girl. When he realizes he s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend s girl. When he realizes he s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend s girl. When he realizes he s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend s girl. When he realizes he s suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they ll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he s in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?