{"id":142,"date":"2006-11-15T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/142"},"modified":"2006-11-19T21:59:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T01:59:05","slug":"stranger-than-fiction-2006-marc-forster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/142","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Than Fiction (2006, Marc Forster)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, OCD number-freak IRS auditor Will Ferrell hears Emma Thompson narrating his life.  He seeks help from English professor Dustin Hoffman, and spends his days auditing free-spirited baker Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Queen Latifah is also there but I&#8217;m not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Lively Spoon soundtrack keeps me happy while I stare at Maggie and wonder about Will&#8217;s mostly non-acting.  Guess he learned from the Truman Show and tried the less-is-more thing instead.  Dustin Hoffman spends more time lifeguarding the pool than teaching classes.  No really stupid parts, some funny bits, some clever writing.  Somehow Emma&#8217;s novel is the greatest piece of American Literature in years but only if Will gets killed, and somehow Maggie falls in love with Will because he sings a Wreckless Eric song.  Spoon&#8217;s new one &#8220;The Book I Write&#8221; is pretty good.  Katy liked it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, OCD number-freak IRS auditor Will Ferrell hears Emma Thompson narrating his life. He seeks help from English professor Dustin Hoffman, and spends his days auditing free-spirited baker Maggie Gyllenhaal. Queen Latifah is also there but I&#8217;m not sure why. Lively Spoon soundtrack keeps me happy while I stare at Maggie and wonder about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,30,265],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-identity","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}