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Stranger than fiction

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?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781424820764
  • ISBN: 1424820766
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
    videodisc
  • Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries, [2007]
  • Distributor: Culver City, CA : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Content descriptions

General Note:
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.).
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Creation/Production 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.
Participant or Performer Note: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Tony Hale, Tom Hulce, Linda Hunt.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.
System Details Note:
DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Language Note:
In English (Dolby Digital Surround 5.1) or French (Dolby Digital Surround) with optional subtitles in English or French ; close-captioned in English.
Subject: Death Drama
Writer's block Drama
Women novelists Drama
Man-woman relationships Drama
Auditory hallucinations Drama
United States. Internal Revenue Service Drama
Genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Fiction films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.

Available copies

  • 37 of 39 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 39 total copies.
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