Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction (2006) is a bittersweet comedy by Marc Forster you can watch online on iFILM. Harold Crick is an IRS agent who counts brushstrokes and times his coffee. Then a woman's voice starts narrating his every move out loud.

The voice belongs to novelist Karen Eiffel, and Harold turns out to be the character she is writing toward an untimely death. Will Ferrell plays sharply against type here: the gray accountant suddenly starts to live, falling for a defiant baker named Ana (Maggie Gyllenhaal), picking up a guitar, and hunting for the author who could rewrite his ending.

Dustin Hoffman shows up as a literature professor trying to pin down which kind of story Harold is trapped in, while Emma Thompson turns writer's block into quiet agony. A small, strange film about free will and the price of someone else's plot. Stream Stranger Than Fiction (2006) online on iFILM.