Directed By: Marc Foster
Starring: Will Farrell, Maggie Gylenhall, Queen Latifah, Dustin Hoffman and others
Running Time: 113 Min
Overall Rating: 8.0/10
Author Karen Eiffel is facing a writer's block. She has been unable to finish her latest tragedy for quite sometime now. Queen Latifah playes the role of an assistant from the publishers who is here to help Karen Eiffel finish her book.
Harold Crick (Will Farell) is an IRS agent who lives his life by the numbers. He is so phenomenal with numbers that his co-workers would rush to him rather than a calculator. Everyday his schedule is governed by numbers. For example: He brushes his teeth x number of times and takes y number of steps to reach the bus stop etc. For most of Harold's actions, there is a female narrator who explains every single one of them, until one day..... when he begins to hear the voice in his head.
Confused, Harold proceeds to consult a psychologist but to no avail. He finally consults a professor in a university (played by Dustin Hoffman). Together they explore and search for answers. Finally one day, by sheer accident, Harold discovers that Karen Eiffel is the voice. He goes in search of her and finally succeds in finding her. He discovers that the book she is writing is his life story.
Soon he also finds out that the ending she wrote in her book involves in Harold's death. What would Harold do? He had just found the love of his life. He wanted to live and not die. He proceeds to read the manuscript of the story and takes the most important decision of his life.
What happens next? To find out, watch Stranger Than Fiction... :)
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Concept, Storyline, Narrative style, Will Farrell, Dustin Hoffman
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Some parts of the story seem a little out of place and ill paced; Queen Latifah is wasted in her role as an assistant,
