A trippy trifle from the Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry school of pop metafiction, STRANGER THAN FICTION is first-time screenwriter Zach Helm's existential riff on the angst of an ordinary fellow who discovers that what he thought was his life is actually a fictional construct, and whether he lives or dies is at the whim of a high-strung novelist. IRS agent Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is a drab, sober fellow whose life of quiet desperation is measured in precise, inconsequential increments: toothbrush strokes, steps on the staircase, bus schedules, minutes in coffee breaks and audited files per box. Crick has no discernable passions, eccentricities or imagination, so ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
113 mins