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0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November, 2006 | by Gire, Dann

Byline: Dann Gire Daily Herald Film Critic "Stranger Than Fiction" * * 1/2 out of four Opens today Starring As Will Ferrell Harold Crick Emma Thompson Kay Eiffel Maggie Gyllenhaal Ana Pascal Dustin Hoffman Jules Hibert Written by Zach Helm. Produced by Lindsay Doran.

Directed by Marc Forster. A Columbia Pictures release. Rated PG-13 (nudity, language, sexual situations, disturbing images). Running time: 105 minutes. Call me stupid, but I just didn't get "Stranger Than Fiction." Is Harold Crick, a nerdy, super-regimented IRS agent played by Will Ferrell, a real guy whose life is being manipulated by the story in a nutty writer's latest novel? Or is he a complete fiction, a funny narrative creation so real that the IRS actually...

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