Existential comedy

Rating: 9/10 (1 March 2009)

Harold Crick (Will Ferrel) is an ordinary man with nothing special about him. He's a punctual tax man, who's life is not going anywhere fast. And on one day he begins to hear a narration inside his head, that seems to be a narrative of things he's just done. And when the narrator gets into a spot, where she says, that Harold Crick is about to die, he decides to look help from a literary professor Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), who advices to take notes of the narratives in order to figure out what kind of a story he's in.
So as Harold is trying to figure out if his budding romance with Ana Pascal (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and his life in general is a tragedy or a comedy, his narrator, struggling writer Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson) is trying her hardest to figure out how in earth he could kill Harold off.
"Stranger Than Fiction" is surprisingly heart warming, well acted, written and directed light drama comedy, that manages to keep you in its grasp to the very end. Will Ferrel does a great job as Crick and his performance isn't shadowed a bit from the performances of rest of the talented cast. STF is one of those films, in which everything seems to click together with ease and it just has the general feel of a film, that everyone involved was doing because they wanted to do it.