- Category: Video » Comedy » Comedy, General
- Format: DVD
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 043396154070
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107049442
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: February 27, 2007
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #1224 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #167 in Comedy (See Top 100 Comedy Bestsellers)
- #167 in Comedy, General (See Top 100 Comedy, General Bestsellers)
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About "Stranger Than Fiction (DVD)"
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Rolling Stone, 09/07/2006, p.124, "You need to see how Ferrell switches gears to give a performance of nuanced wit and surprising gravity." Box Office, 11/01/2006, 100, "Ferrell is strikingly funny railing at the omnipresent voice rattling his life." Uncut, 01/01/2007, p.142, 4 stars out of 5 -- "The script is brilliant....Thought-provoking..." Sight and Sound, 01/01/2007, p.80, "STRANGER THAN FICTION is particularly impressive in its use of stunning Chicago architecture and excellent production design....The performances are also uniformly excellent." Ultimate DVD, 05/01/2007, p.97, 4 stars out of 5 -- "A delightfully surreal and utterly engaging post-modern film that deftly explores what it means to exist." New York Times, 11/10/2006, p.E10, "It is to Mr. Ferrell's credit, and the movie's, that he manages to be interesting without mugging or riffing, but rather by playing a highly controlled man in an impressively controlled manner." Rolling Stone, 11/20/2006, p.136, 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a Ferrell you've never seen before, nailing a role that calls for breakneck humor in the final race against the clock and touching gravity in the love scenes with Gyllenhaal." Total Film, 01/01/2007, p.32, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Ferrell] makes us genuinely root for his bemused hero...It's not often laughs come with so much thought attached..." Entertainment Weekly, 11/17/2006, p.99, "[A]n eminently easy-to-watch piece....[The director] gets infectious performances out of Maggie Gyllenhaal...Dustin Hoffman...and Thompson..." -- Grade: B-
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Theatrical Release: November 10, 2006
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Known to most audiences for his hilarious characters, funnyman Will Ferrell continues to try his hand at more serious material with STRANGER THAN FICTION. The film comes as relatively light fare for director Marc Foster, whose previous works were FINDING NEVERLAND and MONSTER'S BALL. While not exactly a drama, the film shifts between humorous and heavy realms, one of its central questions being: "What makes a comedy or a tragedy?" In WINTER PASSING and MELINDA AND MELINDA, Ferrell awkwardly occupied a strange space that was neither clearly dramatic nor comedic, leaving audiences confused over whether to laugh at the actor or with him. Here, in the role of boring Harold Crick he appears a bit more at ease, as Harold is not expected to be funny--funny things just happen to him. Instead of depending on Ferrell for jokes, the film delivers laughs on its own by exploring what happens when an IRS agent with a dull, solitary life receives unwanted company in the form of an intrusive female voice narrating his every move. As distracting as this is, things become truly worrisome when the narrator (Emma Thompson as an eccentric author) informs Harold of his looming death.
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