Stranger than Fiction 2006

     Everyone knows that your life is a story.  What if a story was your life instead?  Harold Crick is your average IRS Agent.  He is monotonous, boring and repetitive.  One day everything changes!!  Harold hears an author inside of his head narrating his life.  Everything he hears is accurate and Harold recognizes the voice as an esteemed author he saw on television?  This event begins to affect his entire life, his work, his love interest and his possibly his death?

      It is not a stretch to say that Harold is mentally unstable.  But, Harold must find the author of this story!!  He must convince this woman to change the ending of the story before it is too late!!  Harold makes a mistake when he tells Ana that she can deduct the bread she gives away to the homeless as a charitable contribution on her tax return?  In order to qualify as a deduction, the bread must be given to a qualified charitable organization and be properly documented.  If she gives the bread to the homeless it is not enough because there would be no way to prove that she actually gave the bread away!!  I never expected to be including IRS regulations in my blog!! 

   103 min, Comedy directed by Marc Forster  and written by Zach Helm with Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman,William Dick, Guy Massey, Martha Espinoza, T.J. Jagodowski, Peter Grosz, Ricky Adams, Christian Stolte, Denise Hughes, Peggy Roeder, Tonray Ho, Tony Hale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Rhodes, Helen Young.

Note:  Imdb 7.5* out of 10* with 216,983 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 73% with 175 critics 85% audience score with 401,993 ratings, reelviews 3 1/2* James Berardinelli, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*, Common Sense Media, Jane Boursaw 4* out of 5*, age 13+, 2* positive 1* role models 3* violence, 2* sex, 3* language, 2* drinking, drugs, smoking, Metacritic 67 of 100 with 35 critics 8.7 of 10 with 356 ratings.  5* (I really liked this movie)

Special Note:  The title of this movie comes from a famous quote from Lord Byron's Don Juan.  There is a mistake when Harold meets Ana on the bus.  He gets off 27 blocks earlier than his stop.  After he realizes this, he starts walking in the direction the bus came from rather than the way it was going.