Apatow wants to be taken seriously. Funny People is the attempt to raise his game a notch – and it fails.
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This review of Funny People (2009) was written by Michael Posner and published by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) on 30 Dec 2017.
Funny People has generally received mixed reviews.
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