Synopsis
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
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Cast
- Will FerrellHarold Crick
- Maggie GyllenhaalAna Pascal
- Dustin HoffmanProfessor Jules Hilbert
- Emma ThompsonKaren Eiffel
- Queen LatifahPenny Escher
- Tony HaleDave
- William DickIRS Co-Worker #1
- Guy MasseyIRS Co-Worker #2
- Martha EspinozaIRS Co-Worker #3
- T.J. JagodowskiIRS Co-Worker #4
Recommendations
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ReelViews
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
Time
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. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Teems with ideas both literary and existential, which might make it unbearably precious, were it not redeemed by woozy charm and some serious acting from Will Ferrell. - 67
Austin Chronicle
A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) but lacks that writer's conceptual rigor and imaginative power. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
An eminently easy-to-watch piece of one-joke pop japery, is a movie that mimics the I'm-a-character-in-my-own-life metaphysical playfulness of "The Truman Show."
