Quite wonderful fantasy-comedy holds great melancholy and philosophical depths!

Rating: 7/10 (4 December 2008)

Big city IRS investigator leads a dry, predictably dull existence... until he hears a voice-over narrating his very moves - is his life real or being fictionally written?! Quite wonderful, snappy fantasy-comedy holds unexpected melancholy and philosophical depths about fate and living life to the fullest, that almost puts this into the drama section! Echoes of "Adaptation", "Groundhog day" and "The Truman show" - but the script feels original and air-tight, by thankfully evolving and improving as it progresses, dodging the potentially one-joke premise. With a feast-cast and sympathetic characters it's almost a tear-jerker, but smarter, with a big heart!
It also asks the great question - with all novels being written everywhere in the world - mustn't it be someone somewhere telling exactly MY real-life story as fiction?
7 out of 10 from Ozjeppe