Cowards !

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2008)

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and GROUNDHOG DAY have heirs. That's nice. Some concepts are not milked enough (see WHAT WOMEN WANT), some are. This is the case with STRANGER THAN FICTION. The problem, once more, is the ending. Harold Crick should have died. The literary expert played by Dustin Hoffman and Harold Crick himself agreed on that. He should die because that makes the novel a masterpiece. The problem is Hollywood is scared. Scared of losing spectators. Scared of killing a star. So they devised some crappy excuse not to kill Will Ferrell/Harold Crick. Not only the novel is not a masterpiece anymore but this is also true of the film itself. Cowards ! Down with your bloody senseless happy endings !