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Stranger Than Fiction
The film revolves around the boring life of a man named Harold Crick. But one day this changes when Harold begins to hear a writer inside his head tell his life. The narrator is extraordinarily careful, and Harold realizes the sound as a respectable author who watched it on television. But when the narrative reveals that he will die, Harold must find the storyteller to persuade her to change the end of the story before it is too late.
16 October 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
23 September 1962, Illinois, USA
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1954, Toledo, Ohio, USA
18 March 1970, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 September 1971, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
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30 September 1970, West Point, New York, USA
March 30, 2011
"It's not the best piece of English literature of the last ten years," Dustin Hoffman says of Emma Thompson's newest novel, "but it's not bad." That just about sums up Stranger Than Fiction, too.October 11, 2010
Inventively inverting "Adaptation.'s'" anxiety into light romance, "Fiction" is one of the most intelligent, lively, charming and beguiling concept comedies since "Groundhog Day" and a perfect seriocomic splinter of Will Ferrell's big-baby shtick.November 10, 2006
Stranger Than Fiction is both about a novel and like a novel; you eagerly await the turning of the pages.August 28, 2009
Suggests how cleverness can suffocate peopleNovember 16, 2012
Intriguing possibilities, except Helm and Forster aren't quite Kaufman and Jonze. Once their parallel narratives converge, those hoping for a mind-bending meta-pile-up may feel the movie lacks the courage of its fatalistic fiction.August 29, 2009
"Stranger Than Fiction" is a sterile and pedantic comedy that tells much more than it shows.February 03, 2007
An uncommonly plastic bit of Hallmark sentiment-mongering, with exactly the kind of New Age psychobabble ending youâ(TM)d expect.January 01, 2011
Touching dramedy is heavy; won't interest most kids.November 10, 2006
It doesn't coast on its premise but follows where it leads, which is into some serious territory. What might have been a joke with a tagged-on sentimental ending becomes instead a sensitive movie that affirms the value of life.November 15, 2006
A film well worth seeing and savoring.October 18, 2008
The actors and the filmmakers all take a more restrained approach than you might expect, keeping the humor gentle, and the jokes mostly as literary as the premise.November 10, 2006
Stranger Than Fiction seems like an old episode of the Twilight Zone, and the idea would have worked better as one of Rod Serling's half-hour epistles on human foibles.