Movie
Stranger Than Fiction
Romance film with a runtime of 113 minutes, released in 2006. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
A man is stunned to discover that he is a character in a novel being written by a reclusive writer, and she's planning to kill him off. Can he save his own life?, Fiction and reality collide when an IRS agent finds his life narrated by a voice only he hears - describing his entire life, even his upcoming death!, A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently being written by a best-selling author, whose creative block has stunted her repeated efforts to kill him off, in a quirky fantasy comedy written by Hollywood hot property Zach Helm and directed by Finding Neverland's Marc Forester. Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) lives a life of solitude. Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) can't seem to find a way to finish her latest book. Though Harold and Kay have never actually met, their fates are about to become intertwined in a most unusual manner. With her publishers growing increasingly impatient with her apparent inability to put the finishing touches on her latest novel, Kay is assigned a new assistant whose task it is to help provide the creative push needed to get her book finished and into the hands of her many eager fans. The subject of Kay's novel is a lonely and despairing IRS agent named Harold Crick, who believes that his life has lost any real meaning. As Kay continues to weave Harold's woeful tale without realizing that her protagonist is actually a living human being unable to concentrate on his life and career due to the constant interference of the narrator who inexplicably seems to anticipate his every move and read his every thought, her continued efforts to kill her perplexed subject finally provide him with the incentive needed to fully experience life by seeking out the source of the voice that plagues him. Penned by the screenwriter named by Variety magazine as one of the "Top Ten Writers to Watch" and who was also included in Esquire magazine's "Best and Brightest" list of 2004, Stranger Than Fiction features supporting performances by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah.
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Cast
- Will Ferrell
- Emma Thompson
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Dustin Hoffman
- Queen Latifah
- Tom Hulce
- Linda Hunt
- Kristin Chenoweth
- William Dick
- Tony Hale
- T.J. Jagodowski
- Peter Grosz
- Christian Stolte
- Peggy Roeder
- Tonray Ho
- Danny Rhodes
- Linara Washington
- Larry Neumann Jr.
- John Mohrlein
- Bruce Jarchow
- Bradley Mott
- Keith Kupferer
- Danny McCarthy
- Tab Baker
- Martha Espinoza
- Bryan Kelly
- Cheryl Lynn Bruce
- Oran 'Juice' Jones
- Nadiera Bost
- Rengin Altay
- Kathleen Driscoll-Mohler
- Joe Drake
- Matt Chesse
- Jim Miller
- Kerry Sanders
- Roberto Schaefer
- Lora Hirschberg
- Zach Helm
- Aubrey Henderson
- Matt Chessé
- Nathan Kahane
- Joseph Drake
- Frank Fleming
- Ron Goodman
- Bob Papenbrook
- Francine Maisler
- Jimmy Miller
- Scott Millan
- David Obermeyer
- Kevin Thompson
- Michael Semanick
- Craig Jackson
- Geoffrey G. Rubay
- Eric Kopeloff
