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Stranger Than Fiction Movie Review Summary

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman

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    The story of this movie revolves around an IRS auditor; his life is interrupted by the sound of a personal narrator, who knows IRS auditor's every thought, feeling and action, strangely including the time and place of IRS auditor's death. Genres include Comedy, Drama, Romance and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Rated for PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.
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    Harold Crick played by Will Ferrell was a lonely IRS agent. One fine morning, Harold begins to hear a female voice narrating his every action, thought and feeling in frighteningly precise detail.

    Only Harold can hear this narration. Harold's life is turned upside down when he finds out that his life is actually a story and now he must find the writer to somehow persuade her to change the ending because the ending is warned by the voice declaring that Harold is facing imminent death.

    The female voice in Harold's head turns out to be the once renowned but now nearly forgotten novelist Karen "Kay" Eiffel, who is struggling to find an appropriate ending for her novel and this might be her best book ever. Kay's only remaining challenge is to figure out a way to kill her main character Harold but what she doesn't know is that Harold is alive and well and strangely aware of her exact words and her plans for him.

    Kay's publisher has dispatched an uncompromising assistant called Penny Escher to make matters worse by forcing Kay to complete her novel and that means death of Harold is very near. Harold tries to follow Jules Hilbert suggests to change his fate by following comedy's most elemental formulas, a love story between two people who hate each other. Harold fall in love with a baker named Ana Pascal. Harold thought that he had escaped his fate but he doesn't know that in a Kay's stories the lead characters always die at the exact moment when they have the most to live for.
The review of this Movie prepared by Faiza Iqtidar



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Plot & Themes

Inner struggle or disability    -   Yes Struggle with    -   living in dreamworld

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Age:    -   20's-30's Ethnicity/Nationality    -   White American

Setting

United States    -   Yes

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   no torture/death Any profanity?    -   Occasional swearing

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