Stanger Than Fiction - 2006 Movie Review



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Stranger Than Fiction - 2006

Movie Reviews -- week of 11/10/2006

STRANGER THAN FICTION

RATING
3 out of 4 Stars
CAST & CREW
Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson
THEATRICAL RELEASE
November 10, 2006
MPAA RATING
PG-13
RUNTIME
1 hour(s), 53 minutes
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Entertainment
GENRE
Comedy

Review: Suppose for a moment that someone began narrating your life with a play-by-play account of your every thought and move. Add to the drama the fact that you are the only one who can hear the voice, and you create unabashed panic. Such is the state of Harold Crick, respected, thorough IRS agent, as the voice begins one morning as he is calculatingly brushing his teeth. A careful, rational man, with precise habits, Harold struggles to make sense of this bizarre occurrence.

Across town a famous novelist, Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) struggles to complete her latest novel, while battling with the slings and arrows of writer’s block.

Assisted by the take-charge publisher’s representative, Penny Esher (Queen Latifah), things are not going well and the anticipated story is in a stall mode.

And even further across town sits the man who can make the connection between both problems, Professor Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), acclaimed literary expert. It seems only he has the expertise to bring the threads together and weave them into a plausible plot.

A very clever, well-acted and well-presented film that straddles the comedy-drama line, this movie will surprise and satisfy most viewers.

by Mary Morgan is a member of the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association.

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