Movie Details
- Status: Released
- Movie Tagline: Harold Crick isn’t ready to go. Period.
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Release Date: 2006-09-09
- Runtime: 113.0 min
- Budget: $30.0 million
- Revenue: $53.7 million
- Production Companies: Columbia Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Three Strange Angels, Mandate International
Cast & Crew
Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah, Ricky Adams, Denise Hughes, Christian Stolte, Tony Hale, Peggy Roeder, William Dick, Guy Massey, Martha Espinoza, T.J. Jagodowski, Peter Grosz, Tonray Ho, Danny Rhodes, Linara Washington, Helen Young, David Pompeii, David Wiegers, Jarrett Sleeper, Larry Neumann Jr.-John Mohrlein, Tom Hulce, Bruce Jarchow, Linda Hunt, Kristin Chenoweth, Keith Kupferer, Danny McCarthy, Tab Baker, Bryan Kelly, Whitney Sneed, Celeste Pechous, Christian Young, Ray Kurut, Michael Cook, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Ora Jones, Will Clinger, Frank Caeti, Andrew Rothenberg, Bob Papenbrook, Nathan Adloff, Edy Cullen, Tim Krueger, Eli Goodman, Sia A. Moody
Synopsis – What to Expect from “Stranger Than Fiction”
Stranger Than Fiction is a 2006 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster and written by Zach Helm. The film stars Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, and Tony Hale.
The film follows Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), an IRS auditor whose mundane life is disrupted when he begins to hear an author’s (Emma Thompson) voice narrating his life. Harold initially ignores the narrator, but soon realizes that the voice predicts his imminent death. With the help of a literary professor (Dustin Hoffman), Harold attempts to discover who the author is and convince her to change the ending of her story.
The film begins with Harold Crick, an IRS auditor, performing his daily routine of walking to work and brushing his teeth. As he goes about his day, Harold begins to hear a voice narrating his life. Initially confused, Harold soon realizes that the voice is narrating his life as if it were a novel.
Frightened by the voice, Harold seeks help from a literary professor, Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman). Jules helps Harold to understand that he is in fact a character in a novel and that the author is trying to kill him off. With the help of Jules, Harold attempts to discover who the author is and convince her to change the ending of her story.
Harold eventually discovers that the author is Kay E
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