Storyline
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.
Directors
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristin Chenoweth, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Christian Stolte, Keith Kupferer, Bob Papenbrook, Tom Hulce, Tony Hale, Linda Hunt, Peggy Roeder, Ricky Adams, Denise Hughes, William Dick, Peter Grosz, Tonray Ho, Danny Rhodes, Linara Washington, T.J. Jagodowski, David Pompeii, Larry Neumann Jr., John Mohrlein, Bruce Jarchow, Jarrett Sleeper, Danny McCarthy, Tab Baker, Celeste Pechous, Michael Cook, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Ora Jones, Will Clinger, Frank Caeti, Andrew Rothenberg, Nathan Adloff, Edy Cullen, Beth Hebert, Tim Krueger, Eli Goodman, Sia Moody, Guy Massey, Martha Espinoza
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Reviews
88
Stranger than Fiction is a wonderful cinematic experience - a welcome way to spend a chilly autumn evening.
75
Chicago Tribune
When Ferrell and Hoffman do their thing together, a charming bit of whimsy becomes something more. It becomes really, really funny.
75
Rolling Stone
This is a Ferrell you've never seen before, nailing a role that calls for breakneck humor in the final race against the clock and touching gravity in the love scenes with Gyllenhaal.
70
Variety
Sometimes becomes too self-consciously clever, and it doesn't entirely resolve its own central dilemma. But it remains inventive and funny to the end, features fine performances from Will Ferrell and especially Emma Thompson.
70
A more sensitive Ferrell in a script that plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite: that should send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy.
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