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Stranger than fiction [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 15407 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Summary language: English, French Original language: English Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.Description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1424820766
  • 9781424820764
Uniform titles:
  • Stranger than fiction (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C55 S7736447 2007
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.
Production 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.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?
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000230477

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.).

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.

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.

Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Tony Hale, Tom Hulce, Linda Hunt.

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?

MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.

In English (Dolby Digital Surround 5.1) or French (Dolby Digital Surround) with optional subtitles in English or French ; close-captioned in English.

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