Fresh
A film well worth seeing and savoring.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Stranger Than Fiction
Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Period.
2006 · 1h 53m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Marc Forster
Overview
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
Director and cast
- Marc Forster Director
- Will Ferrell as Harold Crick
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Ana Pascal
- Dustin Hoffman as Professor Jules Hilbert
- Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel
- Queen Latifah as Penny Escher
- Ricky Adams as Junge
- Denise Hughes as Bus Fahrer
- Tony Hale as Dave
- Christian Stolte as Vater des Junge
- William Dick as IRS Co-Worker #1
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The actors and the filmmakers all take a more restrained approach than you might expect, keeping the humor gentle, and the jokes mostly as literary as the premise.
Bob Mondello, NPR.org
Rotten
An uncommonly plastic bit of Hallmark sentiment-mongering, with exactly the kind of New Age psychobabble ending youa(TM)d expect.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Rotten
Stranger Than Fiction seems like an old episode of the Twilight Zone, and the idea would have worked better as one of Rod Serling's half-hour epistles on human foibles.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Stranger Than Fiction is both about a novel and like a novel; you eagerly await the turning of the pages.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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