{"id":12628,"date":"2018-07-28T21:57:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2018-07-28T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T03:08:19","slug":"stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous, act would result in his imminent death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stranger Than Fiction<\/strong>, released in 2006<\/p>\n<p>Harold Crick, an IRS agent, starts hearing a voice narrating his life, which is fairly annoying. He&#8217;s auditing a baker who he&#8217;s attracted to. When the voice mentions that Harold is going to die, he freaks out even more. Meanwhile, a writer is trying to figure out a way to kill off her character named Harold Crick.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant premise, it&#8217;s funny, and it&#8217;s romantic.<\/p>\n<p>It has a distinctive style of graphics that occasionally overlay the video.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful movie.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;You&#8217;re never too old to go to space camp, dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hale and Dustin Hoffman have important roles. Tom Hulce shows up even though he&#8217;s otherwise retired.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Emma Thompson. Directed by Marc Forster (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/quantum-of-solace\/\"><strong>Quantum of Solace<\/strong><\/a>). The playful music is by Britt Daniel and Brian Reitzell.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd or 3rd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous, act would result in his imminent death.&#8221; Stranger Than Fiction, released in 2006 Harold Crick, an IRS agent, starts hearing a voice narrating his life, which is fairly annoying. He&#8217;s auditing a baker who he&#8217;s attracted to. When the voice mentions that Harold is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-12628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12638,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions\/12638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}