MOVIE · 2006
Stranger Than Fiction
ComedyDramaFantasyRomance113 min
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose carefully ordered life is interrupted by a voice that starts narrating his every move — and hinting that his story ends in death. Will Ferrell is Harold, trying to make sense of a world that suddenly seems written around him, while Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) treats the problem like a literary puzzle. On the other side of the page, Emma Thompson’s novelist Karen Eiffel is stuck in writer’s block as she struggles to finish a book about a man whose life sounds exactly like Harold’s. The film folds office routine, literary metafiction, and oddball romance into the same increasingly unstable reality.
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