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67 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 135 Ratings

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  • Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell
  • Summary: Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside-down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear. The Narrator, Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), a nearly forgotten author of tragic novels, is struggling to complete her latest and best book, unaware that her protagonist is alive and uncontrollably guided by her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears the Narrator say that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death. (Sony)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 35
  3. Negative: 1 out of 35
  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    91
    In a feat of performing imagination, Ferrell turns his usual extroversion inside out and his usual zaniness into precision, and makes it all work for him.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    50
    The picture is an overworked trifle: There's so much going on in it that it becomes hard to care about ANYTHING that's going on in it. The story in Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than fiction. But what good is it if it's unreadable?
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    Watching the movie made me long for the big , risky ideas and entertainingly fearless filmmaking in David O. Russell's "I Heart Huckabees " and Spike Jonze's "Adaptation ," which Kaufman wrote. Both were similarly conceptual escapades, but they let it all hang out.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 61
  3. Negative: 4 out of 61
  1. jAbMaN
    10
    Stranger Than Fiction is a great comedy/drama film done very well by Will Farrell.
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  2. WallyW.
    5
    Just okay...premise was good, actors were good, but it in the end, it was fairly lite on laughs and the film failed to support the premise. It was clever...but I didn't care. Wait for the DVD.… Expand
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  3. DevynS.
    3
    I was really bored with this movie, in fact my friend that I was watching it with completely fell asleep....the last 15 minutes were ok.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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