Stranger Than Fiction

Director: Marc Forster

Cast: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson

(Sony Pictures, 2006) Rated: PG-13

US DVD release date: 27 February 2007 (Sony)

[9 March 2007]

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

Stranger than Fiction isn’t sure if it wants to be a comedy that relies on stereotypes in order to accentuate the humor, or a drama with the absurdities played as deadpan as possible.
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