Stranger Than Fiction

Aug 15, 2007

Inventive and amusing, if a tad too long. Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent who wakes up one day to hear a voice narrating his life – and foretelling his imminent death. Ferrell gives an understated performance that is sweetly funny, as opposed to the lovable boobs he portrays in most of his films. The varsity cast includes Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Queen Latifah, who, despite having the best monologue in the film, is otherwise underutilized. Stranger Than Fiction is Kaufman-lite meta fiction, and it’s solid entertainment. A-.

Drew

I just meant that it was fiction that knew it was fiction. "Detritus," huh? Someone's been doing the NYT crossword puzzle.
jsj

kuafman-lite meta fiction??? I strongly disagree. I thought it was more of a macro-fiction, or is it micro-fiction. I did enjoy it though. Often my days pass in the same way. I am narrating them to myself so as to add importance to them. ie. "jason was sitting in the faculty meeting when he noticed that everyone wearing black was sitting at the west end of the table. All the bald guys were sitting next to other bald guys and no one with any fashion sense could be found, he suddenly realized why he kept coming to work. were else could he find such a collection of detritus in which to appear so together and collected and follically gifted"...

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