Stranger Than Fiction

Imagine that your life—every decision you make and every unexpected twist you experience—is being written by someone else. Not metaphorically, but literally. That is the original and thought-provoking premise of a story where the boundaries between reality and fiction blur in unsettling and surprising ways.

The plot centers around a renowned novelist, played by Emma Thompson, who is struggling to finish her latest work. It’s an ambitious story, likely the best she has ever written. However, there’s an unexpected obstacle: she must figure out how to kill off the main character of her novel. This dilemma, common among writers seeking a powerful ending, takes on a much more complex—and absurd—dimension here… because the main character turns out not to be a mere literary creation.

Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell, is a seemingly ordinary man, stuck in a predictable routine as an IRS agent. One day, he begins to hear a voice in his head narrating his life with unnerving precision. What at first seems like a hallucination soon reveals itself as something far stranger: Harold is being written by someone. His existence, his actions, even his potential death, are being dictated by an author who has no idea that he actually exists.