STRANGER THAN FICTION

GENRE:  Comedy/ Romance/ Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman
DIRECTOR:  Marc Forster
WRITER:  Zach Helm

PLOT:  An IRS agent, hated by many, single, boring and running on a schedule... the same schedule every day wakes up one day to find that he can hear a mysterious voice narrating his life.  At first he believes himself to be crazy but finds quickly that he is a character in a book that someone is writing, the bad news?  He, Harold Click dies at the end of the story.  With the knowledge of his upcoming fate his life is turned upside down as he tries to find the author to stop the ending from being written during which... he falls in love with a woman least likely to love him back.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Groundhog Day, The Science Of Sleep, Stay

 

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MONA LISA SMILE

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stile, Maggie Gyllenhaal
DIRECTOR:  Mike Newell
WRITER:  Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal

PLOT:  Set in the 50's, a liberal and independent female professor at Wellesley's all girl school teaches her students to think differently.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting, An Education

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DONNIE DARKO

GENRE:  Drama/ Mystery/ Sci-fi
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
DIRECTOR:  Richard Kelly
WRITER:  Richard Kelly

PLOT:  A teenager narrowly escapes an accident and is then troubled by visions of a large rabbit who coerces him to commit a series of criminal acts.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Moon, The Butterfly Effect, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

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