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Stranger Than Fiction

By Zach Helm - Film

FilmScreen1 hour and 25 minutes into the movie

Roles

  • Prof. Hilbert
  • Harold Crick

About this piece

Professor Hilbert tells Harold he has to die

Summary

Harold Crick (Will Ferrel) is a boring and monotonous IRS agent with a repetitive life. One day, he starts hearing a voice narrating his life and soon finds out that's the voice of author Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson) who is writing the story of his life. When he finds out the author is going to kill him, he decides to change his monotonous life to change her mind. Advising him on what he is supposed to do is professor Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) who in this scene, after reading Karen's book, tells Harold that he is supposed to die as the book is a masterpiece and if he didn't die it would ruing the story.....

Tone

Having an argumentPersuading somebodyCommiserating

Use cases

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