Stranger Than Fiction
My Review:
This is not your typical Will Ferrell movie… but I think it’s his best one yet. There’s no slapstick, or running around naked – here Will plays a gentle, ordinary guy who happens to hear a voice narrating his life. This takes the IRS agent out of his mundane existence and gets him questioning every move his makes. Emma Thompson, the only person who has won an Oscar for both screenwriting and acting, plays the novelist who writes about this character. Dustin Hoffman has a nice turn as an off-beat literature professor who assists Will in his struggle to find the author in question. Queen Latifah comes in mid-way as the author’s assistant, sent to help her get over her writer’s block. Maggie Gyllenhal plays Will’s unlikely love interest.
Hard to peg, is it a comedy or a cdrama? It’s a little of both. Thought provoking, and also fun. Nice for teens, younger kids probably won’t get it.
Stranger Than Fiction
- -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.
