Stranger Than Fiction

Pros: Funny and moving story backed up by great performances
Cons: Could have been a little funnier

Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) lives a boring life. He has no friends or social life. He works as an auditor for the IRS. He's so boring that he counts the number of times he brushes his teeth in the morning and the number of steps he takes. All that ...

Pros: smart, philosophical, endearing
Cons: too smart for its own good, sags in the middle

It's no secret that writers play God but does anyone think about the implications? If human beings can create ant farms of their own, creating characters out of nothing, who rise and fall according to the pleasure of the author, what does that say about ...

Pros: Watch it. The writer clearly is a lover of words.
Cons: None.

...stranger than fiction is delightful. It digs up the age-old theme of the ordinary man doing extraordinary things. For me, the movie brought up three questions: 1) If we knew our fate, would we change it? 2) If we knew death was imminent, how would ...

Pros: Great story and performances, music
Cons: Briefly slow pacing

Harold Crick has a pretty dull life. He is obsessed by numbers. How many times has he brushed each tooth? How long does it take him to get to the bus stop? Harold is an IRS agent, so this obsession with numbers helps him with his job. His life ...

Pros: great acting, good story, good chick flick
Cons: some obscenities

This movie was such a great surprise! I honestly thought it was going to be a true Will Ferrell, laugh the entire movie type film. It wasn’t but it was still a great film to watch. The cast did an outstanding job. Who doesn't love Will Ferrell, but to ...

Pros: Will Ferrell has a great dramatic role here. Maggie Gyllenhaal is also great.
Cons: feel good Hollywood ending?

Mark watched a movie with his son this weekend that he really enjoyed. The name of the film was "Stranger than Fiction". He decided to write about it on Epinions. Just when I thought every movie was the same old thing, along comes ...

Pros: Great acting, writing, funny with a strong human element
Cons: None

From the moment I saw the first trailer for this film, I thought I would enjoy it. After I watched it this afternoon, I was wrong about one thing: I actually enjoyed it more than I anticipated. I've had mixed feelings about Will Ferrell in the past. ...

Pros: Forster's Direction, Helm's Script, Look, Location, Soundtrack, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Ever since debuting Everything Put Together in 2000, Swiss-born director Marc Forster has become one of the most prolific and profiled directors after gaining a breakthrough with 2001's Monster's Ball. 2004's Finding Neverland was ...

Pros: Will Ferrell actually acts, great performances all around.
Cons: I'm still afraid I'll watch one time and find big, gaping holes.

Let's start off with a brief synopsis of the film, shall we? I'm seriously not a fan of knowing too much about a film before I see it, I like to give the director a chance to fill me in himself, so I won't be telling much more than you could find in the ...

Pros: Great plot; different role for Will Ferrell that works for him
Cons: Music a little too similar to Napoleon Dynamite's.

Will Ferrell has always been known for his comedic roles stemming from Saturday Night Live. This film assured moviegoers that Ferrell can play in multiple genres without us thinking of Alex Trebek. Ferrell's character, Harold Krick, is a tax auditor ...

Pros: Ferrell, Gyllenhaal, Hoffman, Emma Thompson
Cons: none particularly

There is a certain kind of film that, if done well, I fall for each and every time, that plays to some inner note within my heart that never fails to respond accordingly. I'm not sure precisely what it is that resonates so soundly in these films - and ...

Pros: Solid acting, original storyline, very palatable Will Farrell
Cons: Requires subtlety to enjoy

This is a very peculiar film, not quite 100% drama, not quite 100% comedy. At times I wait for some event to burst out but it doesn't quite happen. I've not seen nor heard of a film with a storyline like this one, so at the very least there was a ...

Pros: Good performances by several of my favorite actors. Interesting story line.
Cons: Implausible elements in the plot. Weak conflict and central characters.

I've been looking forward to seeing Stranger Than Fiction since it first came out. I'm a fiction writer, and there have been times when my characters seem to acquire a life of their own... in my mind. I've written a book set in Tobermory, Scotland, and ...

Pros: Good movie, moved along well, feel-good
Cons: The DVD had no worthwhile extras.

This weekend I bought the movie Stranger Than Fiction on DVD (widescreen version). I really wanted to see the movie when it came out int he theater because I heard such good things about it but I never got around to it. So I saw the movie on sale and ...

Pros: Ferrell, Gyllenhaal, Hoffman, Thompson, script, direction
Cons: Queen Latifah underutilized; reminiscent of some Woody Allen work

Harold Crick lived an ordinary and uneventful life as an auditor for the IRS. Then he started hearing a voice inside his head. In spite of proclamations from psychiatrists that he might be insane, Harold (Will Ferrell) knew the voice was real, for it ...