If you’re trying to find a way to tell the estranged daughter who is still furious because you left her mother for a young airhead that said airhead is pregnant with your estranged daughter’s soon-to-be half sibling, it probably will not help to have sex with her fiancée. And yet, we have “Funny Story,” where Walter Campbell is right in the middle of that exact quagmire. Your appreciation for this film will depend in large part on where this all falls on your personal continuum from “funny” to “funny-ish”.

Walter, the onetime star of a cheesy but fondly remembered fantasy television series called “Youngblood,” tries to break up with the airhead, explaining that she is interested only in “fashion, reality television, and your phone,” while he is interested in … “everything else.” She pauses in posing for a selfie to inform him that she is pregnant. He hoped to tell his daughter Nic when she came to visit, but she cancels, so he invites himself to Big Sur, where she is staying with some friends. He knows she will be hurt and angry and so he wants to tell her in person.

One of the friends meeting Nic in Big Sur is Kim, but her car died and she needs a lift. Walter, eager to be accommodating, agrees. We already know Kim is troubled—and trouble. Walter just knows she is hostile. She has a nose ring and an attitude and, as he puts it, “For someone so small, you wear a huge layer of ‘bitch.’”

What he does not know is that his daughter is a lesbian, and plans to marry Kim in Big Sur. That is not an excuse for his cheating on the woman who is pregnant with his child after he left the mother of his other child for her. Kim made the first move, but he is twice her age and, at the least, the father of her friend.

The rest of the film is all about who is going the tell the truth first.  Will you tell your loved one the truth even when you know it will destroy her?