Stranger than Fiction DVD 2006 Felforgatókönyv / Directed by Marc Forster / Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah

UPC 5999544155749

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 108 minutes

English Summary:

Harold Crick, an agent for the Internal Revenue Service, is a lonely man who lives his life by his wristwatch. He is assigned to audit an intentionally tax-delinquent baker, Ana Pascal, to whom he is attracted. On the same day, he begins hearing the voice of a woman omnisciently narrating his life as if he were a main character in a novel, but is unable to communicate with it. Harold's watch stops working and he resets it using the time given by a bystander; the voice narrates, "little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Worried by this prediction, Harold consults a psychiatrist who attributes the voice to schizophrenia, though they consider that, if there really is a narrator, he should visit an expert in literature. Crick visits Jules Hilbert, a literature professor, and relates his story. When Jules recognizes aspects of a literary work in Harold's story, he encourages Harold to identify the author, first by determining if the work is a comedy or tragedy.

As Harold audits Ana, the two fall for each other. When Harold refuses to accept cookies that Ana made for him because they could be viewed as a bribe, Ana tells him to leave, making Harold believe his story is a tragedy. On the advice of Jules, Harold spends the next day at home trying to control his destiny by doing nothing, but his apartment is partially demolished by a wrecking crew that mistook the building for an abandoned one. Jules believes that since Harold cannot control the plot, he should accept his impending death and enjoy whatever time he has left. Harold takes a vacation from work, develops his friendship with his co-worker Dave, fulfills his dream of learning to play the guitar, and apologizes to Ana and begins dating her. Harold reassesses his story as a comedy. When he returns to Jules with this revelation, Harold inadvertently identifies the voice in his head from a television interview as author Karen Eiffel. Jules, an admirer of Karen's work, reveals that all of her books feature the main character's tragic death.

Hungarian Summary:

Karen Effiel sikeres írónő. Legújabb könyvét egy magának való fickóról, Harold Crickről írja. Arról azonban halvány sejtelme sincs, hogy az általa kitalált figura valójában egy élő, hús-vér ember. Az igazi Harold Crick adóügynökként éli dögunalmas életét, míg egy nap el nem kezd furcsa hangokat hallani. Döbbenten veszi tudomásul, hogy ezek a hangok valójában Karen narrációjának részei, aki folyamatosan papírra veti Harold mostani és elkövetkezendő cselekedeteit. Más megoldást nem találva főhősünk egy irodalomprofesszor segítségét kéri, hogy együtt jöjjenek rá, mi történik a férfival. Végül, fejlődőképes regényhőshöz méltóan elhatározza, hogy gyökeresen megváltoztatja eddigi életét: ennek első jeleként udvarolni kezd egyik legmakacsabb ügyfelének, a pékségtulajdonos Anának. A dolgok azonban nem várt fordulatot vesznek, mikor Harold megtudja, hogy Karen meg akarja ölni az "általa kitalált" karaktert... 

Cast / Szereplők:

• Will Ferrell as Harold Crick, an IRS agent who starts hearing Eiffel's voice narrating his life.
• Maggie Gyllenhaal as Ana Pascal, a local baker who goes up against any kinds of governmental taxes but falls in love with Crick.
• Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel, a partially depressed author known for killing her main protagonists in her novels, but ends up writing a novel named "Death and Taxes" about Harold's life.
• Dustin Hoffman as Professor Jules Hilbert, a literature expert advising Crick.
• Queen Latifah as Penny Escher, a secretary who helps authors to finish their works.
• Tony Hale as Dave, Harold's friend from his work.
• Tom Hulce as Dr. Cayly
• Linda Hunt as Dr. Mittag-Leffler, a psychologist whom Crick sees in hopes of solving his narration problem.
• Kristin Chenoweth as Book Channel host