Made me think twice about calling a movie predictable!

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2007)

Stranger than Fiction is one of those movies than you would try to predict, but everything turns out totally different. Here I was, at the movie theater, attempting to predict a movie with so many twists and turns. When you hear Emma Thompson's words projecting from that movie screen, your mind is elsewhere, trying to figure out what all this means. There are so many lessons to be learned from this movie. Even if you think you figured them all out, you still have many more lessons to learn.
The movie starts out with Harold Crick (Will Ferrel), an ordinary IRS agent, hearing a strange female voice in his mind. This voice narrates what is happening in his life and foretells what will happen to him. Harold figures out that he is a character in a novel... written by an author who always kills off the hero (which is in this case, the hero is Harold). And then, the author narrates that he will die. So then Harold seeks out a literature expert, Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) to help him out. Jules helps him reveal the identity of the author. Harold then seeks out Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) to tell her that he is real and that he will die if she writes this.
Will Ferrel, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson make a fantastic movie, as they usually do. This is easily Will Ferrel's best performance.
7/10 and Three Stars.