| Other author/creator | Doran, Lindsay producer. |
| Other author/creator | Helm, Zach, screenwriter. |
| Other author/creator | Forster, Marc, 1969- director. |
| Other author/creator | Ferrell, Will, 1967- actor. |
| Other author/creator | Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977- actor. |
| Other author/creator | Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- actor. |
| Other author/creator | Queen Latifah, 1970- actor. |
| Other author/creator | Thompson, Emma actor. |
| Other author/creator | Hale, Tony. |
| Other author/creator | Hulce, Tom, 1953- |
| Other author/creator | Hunt, Linda, 1945- |
| Other author/creator | Columbia Pictures. |
| Other author/creator | Mandate Pictures (Firm) |
| Other author/creator | Three Strange Angels (Firm) |
| Other author/creator | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) |
| Uniform title | Stranger than fiction (Motion picture) |
| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
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? |
| General note | Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006. |
| General note | 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.). |
| Credits | 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. |
| Cast |
Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Tony Hale, Tom Hulce, Linda Hunt. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity. |
| Audience |
CHV rating: PG. |
| Technical details | DVD. |
| Language | In English (Dolby Digital Surround 5.1) or French (Dolby Digital Surround) with optional subtitles in English or French ; close-captioned in English. |
| ISBN | 1424820766 |
| ISBN | 9781424820764 |
| UPC |
043396154070 |
| UPC |
043396180659 |
| UPC |
043396154094 |
| Publisher number | 15407 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Publisher number | 18065 Columbia Pictures |
| Stock number | Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com |
