Stranger Than Fiction

This week's movie pick is Stranger than Fiction. This movie stars Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, and Dustin Hoffman. The movie is about an average guy named Harold Crick (Ferrell), who suddenly hears a womans voice narrating his life. Throughout the film, Harold tries to figure out who this woman's voice is when she finally says that he is facing imminent death. He's get's time off of work and asks for help from a literary theorist (Hoffman) to find out who this writer is so that he may try to escape it. Another part of this film shoots to the actual narrator/writer (Thompson) who is trying to finish a book about Harold. An assistant (Latifah) is hired to help the writer finish her book, by giving her ideas to kill Crick. Little does she know that this fictional character that she's made up is actually real.

Thier's actually more to the story, but generally thats the over view of the film. The movie is a bit of a comedy/drama/ romance. The romance in it deals with Harold Cricks character falling in love with a cookie maker Ana Pascal (Gyllenhaal). I thought the film was good. Besides the fact that thier were people talking during the film (lame). The whole concept of somebody deciding your fate and knowing that you'll die soon is a bit scary. I think this type of film is the kind of film you could defintely watch at home with a nice cup of hot chocolate. hahah