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Stranger than fiction (Motion picture)

Stranger than fiction [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures present a Three Strange Angels production ; produced by Lindsay Doran ; written by Zach Helm ; directed by Marc Forster.

Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.

1 videodisc (113 min.)

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?

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

CHV rating: PG.

United States. Internal Revenue Service -- Drama.

United States. Internal Revenue Service -- Drama.

United States. Internal Revenue Service.

Auditory hallucinations -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Women novelists -- Drama.

Writer's block -- Drama.

Death -- Drama.

Feature films.

Auditory hallucinations.

Death.

Man-woman relationships.

Women novelists.

Writer's block.

Drama.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Comedy -- Feature.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Doran, Lindsay.

Helm, Zach.

Forster, Marc, 1969-

Ferrell, Will, 1967-

Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-

Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-

Queen Latifah, 1970-

Thompson, Emma.

Hale, Tony.

Hulce, Tom, 1953-

Hunt, Linda, 1945-

Columbia Pictures.

Mandate Pictures (Firm)

Three Strange Angels (Firm)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006.

Special features: Actors In Search of a Story [featurette] (19 min.); Building the Team [featurette] (9 min.); On Location in Chicago [featurette] (11 min.); Words on a Page [featurette] (10 min.); Picture a Number: The Evolution of a G.U.I. [featurette] (17 min.); On the Set [featurette] (3 min.); Book Channel interview with Karen Eiffel [extended scene] (7 min.); Book Channel interview with Peter Allen Prothero [deleted scene] (5 min.); Previews (5 min.).

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.

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

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.

In English (Dolby Digital Surround 5.1) or French (Dolby Digital Surround) with optional subtitles in English or French ; close-captioned in English.

Before Wednesday -- Extraordinary day -- Baker -- Talking leaps -- Trees are trees -- Alarming news -- Little did he know -- Transit encounter -- Ruling out the possibilities -- Comedy or tragedy -- Harold the tax guy -- Milk and cookies -- Harold's day off -- Plot thickens -- Musical conviction -- Breaking the protocol -- Making music -- Significant moments -- Writer's resolution -- Critical call -- Avoiding chance -- Poetic masterpiece -- Entertaining ideas -- Sharing secrets -- Unthinkable error -- Life choices -- Making sense -- Finding cookies.

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