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After ten years of painstaking work, novelist Karen Eiffel is nearing completion on her latest, and potentially finest, book. Her only remaining challenge is to figure out how to kill off her main character, Harold Crick.
Little does she know that Harold Crick is inexplicably alive-and-well in the real world, and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending.
DVD Special Features:
• Actors in Search of a Story
• Building the Team
• On Location in Chicago
• Words on the Page
• On The Set
• Picture a Number
• The Evolution of G.U.I.
• Book Channel Interview with Karen Eiffel
• Book Channel Interview with Peter Alan Prothero
• English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired
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Review by: kiwireviewer-00
Dated: 19th of August, 2007
I really didn't know what to expect from this one. It has such an eclectic cast, and such a warped storyline... I was half expecting something truely brilliant, or something totally -yawn-provoking! Thankfully... it was quite different, funny in places, thought-provoking in places, and overall quite good viewing.
Emma Thompson plays a stunning role as the writers-block-suffering author of a series of books that always end with some poignant, but messy, death of their lead male character. Her angst, distraction, and near-breakdowns are so authentic and convincing, I had to wonder if she really was suffering some mental distress...
Overall, though not at all believable, this movie raises some interesting questions into the nature of "living life" vs "being alive"... if you were to die tomorrow, would you look back on a full, worthy life, or a handful of years of just passing time, with a few interesting bumps in the road? The movie itself, I could take or leave... but I loved watching it for it's carnival-mirror reflections of life out in the 'real world' that we inhabit.
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