Stranger than fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Stranger than fiction (Motion picture)
Imprint:	Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
Description:	1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	English French
Subject:	United States. -- Internal Revenue Service -- Drama. United States. -- Internal Revenue Service. Auditory hallucinations -- Drama. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Women novelists -- Drama. Writer's block -- Drama. Death -- Drama. Auditory hallucinations. Death. Man-woman relationships. Women novelists. Writer's block. Feature films. Comedy films. Fiction films. Comedy films. Drama. Feature films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7686511

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Other authors / contributors:	Doran, Lindsay. Helm, Zach. Forster, Marc, 1969- Ferrell, Will, 1967- Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977- Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- Queen Latifah, 1970- Thompson, Emma. Hale, Tony. Hulce, Tom, 1953- Hunt, Linda, 1945- Columbia Pictures. Mandate Pictures (Firm) Three Strange Angels (Firm) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN:	1424820766 9781424820764
Notes:	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.). 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. 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 ; closed-captioned in English.
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?
Target Audience:	MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.
Standard no.:	043396154070
Publisher's no.:	15407 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Summary:	Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures up a way to finish him off.
Item Description:	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.).
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Audience:	MPAA rating: Rating PG-13; for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.
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.
ISBN:	1424820766 9781424820764