Expected More Comedy From Will Farrell

Rating: 7/10 (30 November 2006)

I knew nothing much about this film, only what I had seen on the trailer and that the cast included Will Farrell. I immediately assumed this was a comedy, yet I found it to be more of an 'easy' watching romance film with a few laughable parts. Enjoyable, but a little disappointing as I went in expecting the usual from Will Farrell, a comedy. I managed to get hold of some advanced screening tickets free of charge to see 'Stranger Than Fiction' so I can't really complain!
Plot Summary: Karen Effiel is an author writing her latest novel about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalised character is real. The real Harold Crick is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence and one day begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she puts on paper to what Harold has and is doing. Because of this Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life including beginning a relationship with his IRS client, a government-hating bakery owner named Ana Pascal. Harold, however, finds trouble when he hears that Karen plans to kill him.