Stranger Than Fiction
2006
**½
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman
A moderately successful drama comedy about a robotic tax official who realises that he's the protagonist in somebody's novel and destined to die in the last chapter. This Charlie Kaufman-like story has some clever and funny bits but it's a somewhat lackluster whole; there's an awkward polite smile on your face throughout the story. The ending is that of a mediocre Hollywood film, not of the great novel described on screen.
