Stranger than fiction

Resource Information

The work Stranger than fiction represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Stranger than fiction

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures present a Three Strange Angels production ; produced by Lindsay Doran ; written by Zach Helm ; directed by Marc Forster

Creator

• Stranger than fiction (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-
• Forster, Marc, 1969-
• Hale, Tony
• Ferrell, Will, 1967-
• Helm, Zach
• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• Doran, Lindsay
• Three Strange Angels (Firm)
• Hulce, Tom, 1953-
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Hunt, Linda, 1945-
• Mandate Pictures (Firm)
• Queen Latifah, 1970-
• Columbia Pictures
• Thompson, Emma

Actor

• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• Ferrell, Will, 1967-
• Hale, Tony
• Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-
• Thompson, Emma
• Queen Latifah, 1970-
• Hunt, Linda, 1945-
• Hulce, Tom, 1953-

Director

• Forster, Marc, 1969-

Producer

• Doran, Lindsay

Screenwriter

• Helm, Zach

Subject

• Fiction films
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• United States, Internal Revenue Service -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women novelists -- Drama
• Writer's block -- Drama
• Auditory hallucinations -- Drama
• Comedy -- Feature
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• DVD-Video discs
• Death -- Drama
• Feature films
• Comedy films

Genre

• Drama
• Comedy
• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

Harold Crick - IRS auditor, milquetoast, and poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder - wakes one morning to hear a woman's voice in his bathroom, narrating his life as he is living it, subsequently announcing his imminent death. This is a big problem, since Harold has a burning crush on Ana, his latest audit case. Searching for the source of the voice, he turns to literary theory-spewing professor Jules Hilburt, who eventually discovers that talented but troubled novelist Karen Eiffel is writing Harold--he is the central character of her new novel, "Death and Taxes." The question is: will Harold's story end as a comedy, or a tragedy?

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Roberto Schaefer ; edited by Matt Chesse ; music by Britt Daniel, Brian Reitzell ; visual effects designer, Kevin Tod Haug ; main title sequence and Harold's mathematical graphics designed and animated by MK12

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity

Language note

English or French dialogue, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.C55

LC item number

S7736447 2007

PerformerNote

Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Tony Hale, Tom Hulce, Linda Hunt

Runtime

113

Target audience

general

Technique

live action