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Titolo originale: Stranger Than Fiction
Regia: Marc Forster |
Anno: 2006
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma Fantasy Romance
Tag: literature | professor | writer's block | love | fate | author | death | dying | novelist | publisher | what if | book | narrator | escritor |
Cast: Will Ferrell | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Dustin Hoffman | Emma Thompson | Queen Latifah | Tony Hale | William Dick | Guy Massey | Martha Espinoza | T.J. Jagodowski | Peter Grosz | Tonray Ho | Herb Lichtenstein | Stacey Elaine Jackson | Ricky Adams | Christian Stolte | Denise Hughes | Peggy Roeder | Danny Rhodes | Linara Washington | Helen Young | David Pompeii | David Wiegers | Jarrett Sleeper | Larry Neumann Jr. | John Mohrlein | Tom Hulce | Bruce Jarchow | Linda Hunt | Kristin Chenoweth | Bradley Mott | John M. Watson Sr. | Karen Lloyd | Keith Kupferer | Danny McCarthy | Tab Baker | Mark Buettner | Christian Young | Ray Kurut | Michael Cook | Arraon Skippa Hixson | Bryan Kelly | Whitney Sneed | Celeste Pechous | Cheryl Lynn Bruce | Chet Dubowski | Ora Jones | Jordan Keller | Jordan Teplitz | Ricardo Gutierrez | James Mazza | Oscar Roxas | Nadirah Bost | Sandra Marquez | Lacy Katherine Campbell | Will Clinger | Al Samuels | Frank Caeti | Andrew Rothenberg | Rengin Altay | Lucinda Kemp | Donna Watkins | Julia Heron | Lora Cain | Bob Papenbrook | Mike McColl | Nathan Adloff | Sia A. Moody | Eli Goodman | Edy Cullen | Tim Krueger |

L'universo di Harold Crick, agente del fisco, viene sconvolto quando inizia a sentire una misteriosa voce narrante che fa la cronaca in diretta della sua vita e che solo lui è in grado di sentire. La misteriosa narratrice è Kay Eiffel, una scrittrice in declino che sta scrivendo il suo ultimo libro che, per puro paradosso, è proprio la fedele descrizione della vita di Harold, ormai completamente guidata dalle parole dell'autrice. Ad aggiungere disagio al povero Harold è anche il tragico destino che Kay ha in mentre per l'eroe del suo libro. Il 'protagonista' a questo punto cerca conforto nell'aiuto dell'eccentrico dottor Jules Hilbert e tra le braccia di Ana Pascalo, una delle 'vittime' dei suoi controlli fiscali. Le cose si mettono ancora peggio quando Harold, ribellandosi al testo del romanzo, cerca in tutti i modi di sopravvivere tanto da indurre l'editore del libro ad assumere un killer per portare a compimento l'opera...

Frasi

Harold Crick: [to Ana] This may sound like gibberi [...] D
[to Harold during their first meeting] Ana Pascal [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: The last thing to determi [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: Aren't you relieved to kn [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: No, why did you change th [...] D
Harold Crick: How are you? Ana Pascal: I'm lousy. [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: [walking to pool] Some pl [...] D
Ana Pascal: I'm a big supporter of fixing potholes [...] D
Penny Escher: And I suppose you smoked all these c [...] D
[Harold is talking with a coworker, Dave, in the I [...] D
Karen Eiffel: As Harold took a bite of Bavarian Su [...] D
Penny Escher: [They are in a hospital ward surroun [...] D
Kay Eiffel: [narrating] It wasn't just about findi [...] D
Ana Pascal: Mr. Crick. Mr. Crick! Harold Crick: Y [...] D
Harold Crick: You keep your files like this? Ana [...] D
Harold Crick: [crying] You're asking me to knowing [...] D
Harold Crick: What if what I said was true? Hypoth [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: Meeting an insurance agen [...] D
Ana Pascal: Mr. Crick, it was a really awful day. [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: You dislike your work? H [...] D
Kay Eiffel: ...It came to me. Penny Escher: How? [...] D
Professor Jules Hilbert: No one wants to die, Haro [...] D
Penny Escher: I'm Penny Escher. I'm the assistant [...] D
Harold Crick: I may already be dead, just not type [...] D
Kay Eiffel: [sees Harold for the first time] Oh, m [...] D
Harold Crick: Aren't you too old to go to space ca [...] D
[Harold meets Jules Hilbert for the first time] P [...] D
Harold Crick: I brought you flours. D
[standing outside Ana's bakery, Harold starts to l [...] D
Kay Eiffel: [Penny goes to answer phone] Don't ans [...] D
Kay Eiffel: Little did he know that this simple, s [...] D
Ana Pascal: I won't be paying, Mr. Crick. No matte [...] D
Penny Escher: [sitting on bench under an umbrella] [...] D
Penny Escher: Man in tweed? Kay Eiffel: There's n [...] D
Ana Pascal: You don't like cookies? D
Harold Crick: What do these questions have to do w [...] D
Harold Crick: Ten seconds ago you said you wouldn' [...] D
Kay Eiffel: [narrating] Why was Harold talking to [...] D
Harold Crick: Big flag-burning to get to? Ana P [...] D
Dr. Mittag-Leffler: Mr. Crick, you have a voice sp [...] D
Kay Eiffel: What's this? Penny Escher: It's liter [...] D
Kay Eiffel: Excuse me, where are the dying people? [...] D
Harold Crick: You have to understand that this isn [...] D