Ashley Porter
Published: November 8, 2006
Stranger than Fiction starring Will Farrell, Emma Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is about a man named, Harold Crick, and the wrist watch that he dismisses as being an ordinary. Harold Crick is a very, very ordinary man who’s every step is calculated and time precisely by his wrist watch. Then one Wednesday he starts hearing the voice of a woman narrating his actions as he goes through the day. Harold tries to keep on going with his everyday life at the IRS, but it was no use, he couldn’t concentrate on his work, math problems that he once solved with ease became a great difficulty for him. On that fateful day Harold finds out that the simple change in time on his wrist watch will lead him to his death. After finding out this most terrible news Harold sets out on a journey to find out what type of story he’s in (tragedy, comedy) and how to find the author that is unintentionally writing a book about him. The movie has a good moral to it because after Harold finds out he’s going to perish he learns to live his life to the fullest and takes up a hobby that he has wanted to do all of his life and he falls in love.
This movie was not exactly what I thought it was going to be. I went into Stranger than Fiction thinking that it was going to be laugh-out-loud funny, but it wasn’t. It had a great moral and the acting was first rate but it was not the movie I thought it was going to be. It was actually very good though, it’s just not what most viewers were expecting however. The plot developed very well and there weren’t any real slow moments, there was always something going on in the story. It has a great twist at the end that I had hoped for but didn’t expect. All in all it was a great movie with lots of little things that will make you giggle but nothing to make you burst out with laughter; you are more likely to walk out with a tear of joy in your eye.