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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)

[10 November 2006]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Get Bent

Maybe Professor Hilbert knows exactly how right he is, given the film's relentless archness: it knows that you know that it knows it's meta.

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