Stranger Than Fiction
Dvd release date: 02/27/2007
Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Marc Forster
Category: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he’s the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), an eccentric author famous known for killing her main characters in creative ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures up a way to finish him off. (Publisher)
Summary of critic ratings:
Chicago Tribune: *** (out of four)
New York Post: **1/2 (out of four)
Rolling Stone: *** (out of four)
USA Today: *** (out of four)
Overall: *** (out of four)
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