Movie Review -Assignment 5-MM 3503-Lucas Sharp

 Movie Review 

    Ever since I was a kid i have always loved movies, I loved the different feelings they gave me. Movies can inspire an entire nation, and can be remembered for generations. My favorite type of movies are superhero and comedy's. One of my favorite actors is Will Ferrell, he is one of the funniest people in my opinion. Nearly every movie he is in I laugh the entire time. Step Brothers will forever be one of my all-time favorite films just because of him. The other day  while i was on Netflix I happened to come across a movie he starred in and it was completely different than what I was expecting. Today, I am going to review Stranger than Fiction. 

    Stranger than fiction was released on November 10, 2006, it is an American fantasy comedy-drama directed by Marc Foster and produced by Lindsay Doran. The films stars include: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson. The movie follows an IRS agent by the name of Harold Crick, who at first lived his life straight by his wrist watch, not doing anything exciting just living a boring life. He begins to hear a voice of a women who is narrating his life, which freaks him out. His watch somehow goes out and he has to use a bystander for the time in which the voice says this will eventually result in his death. He beings to go to a psychiatrists that tells his to go talk to a literary expert. Harold goes to Jules Hilbert, a literary professor, who tells his that his story either ends as a comedy or tragedy. Harold begins to grow an attraction for the Ana, who is a women he is auditing. As he grows a relationship with her, he begins to think his story is a comedy. This is until he goes to see Jules again, and happens to hear the voice of the women narrating his life on the television. The voice happens to be Karen Eiffel, a very well known author, who has been working on a new book that happened to star Harold Crick as the main character. Unfortunately, Jules tells Harold that all of her works end in death, and that he needs to accept his fate. Harold reaches out to Karen and meets with her, she cannot believe that he is actually real. Karen gives Harold the manuscript to read and at first he can't, but he finally does. He tells Karen that he has accepted his fate and that she should not change it. The next day he goes about his routine, but when he sees a boy who fell in the street while a bus was close to hitting him, he pushed the boy out of the way getting hit by the bus. Thinking that he was dead he wakes up in a hospital bed with several injuries. Karen had ended up revising the work and changing the ending, leaving Harold Crick alive. 

    The movie received a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on IMDb. This is a review from Robert Ebert, ""Stranger Than Fiction" is a meditation on life, art and romance, and on the kinds of responsibility we have. Such an uncommonly intelligent film does not often get made. It could have pumped up its emotion to blockbuster level, but that would be false to the premise, which requires us to enter the lives of these specific quiet, sweet, worthy people. The ending is a compromise -- but it isn't the movie's compromise, it belongs entirely to the characters and is their decision. And that made me smile."

    Like is said before this was movie i would not expect from Will Ferrell. I am used to seeing Step Brothers, or Land of the Lost, or The Other Guys, or Get Hard style movies with Will. Obviously it had its comedic elements to it, but it was more of a serious drama type film. My favorite aspect of the movie was the Harold Crick had to accept his death and live his life to the fullest even knowing his fate. He saved a child when he knew that in that moment death was likely the outcome. That takes a lot of guts to do, and it should be practiced by everyone. You never know when your last day will be, so why not live everyday to the fullest. 

    If you ever have spare time and are a fan of Will Ferrell, I suggest to check this movie out, you won't regret it!