Stranger Than Fiction [DVD]

Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, et al.

Product Description

After ten years of painstaking work, novelist Karen Eiffel (Thompson) is nearing completion on her latest, and potentially finest, book. Her only remaining challenge is to figure out how to kill off... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 2006
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Director: Marc Forster
• Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

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Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) goes about his regimented, mundane life as an IRS agent. Until one day, he hears a voice in his head narrating his life. He confronts a psychiatrist (Linda Hunt) who informs him that it is schizophrenia. He says no, it is just a voice in his head, and the psychiatrist says that it is schizophrenia. Turns out he may be a character in a book, and his days are numbered. Can he figure this out in time to save his bacon? He enlists the help of a literary professor (Dustin Hoffman) to help in the quest. On the way, he may even have time enough for love (Maggie Gyllenhaal) The world inside the theme of the world is not new or unique. See the film “The Thirteenth Floor” or read the book “Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy” by Jostein Gaarder. However, it is how the story is executed and the skill of the actors to involve us that makes this presentation excel.