Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction

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One of my favorite films from the past few years! I'm not normally a big Will Ferrell fan -- I find most of his films played a little too broad, slapsticky, farcical and crude for my taste. He's actually a very good actor, capable of serious drama and even sweetness at times. And Stranger Than Fiction provides him with a very intriguing opportunity to explore his acting chops. Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS auditor living a very organized but repetitive life. That life is thrown off-balance when Crick begins hearing a woman's voice providing voice-over narration, which is describing everything he does. No-one else hears the voice, and Harold begins to think he's going insane. What could have been another overly-broad comedy actually turns out to be an intelligent, introspective look at reality -- what it is, to various points of view. Stranger Than Fiction features excellent performances from both Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel, the eccentric, reclusive author who appears to be writing his life story...as he lives it. This film will make you laugh, make you think and make you feel! Highly recommended. -- recommended by Scott C. - Bennett Martin Public Library [ Subscribe to Scott's monthly booklist newsletter -- It's All Geek to Me! ]

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