First it takes hold of your mind...then it takes hold of your life.
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
- Suicide or self-harm
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Contemporary, grave, spare and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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“Would The Number 23 hit harder if it came out today rather than in 2007?”
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“Does the ending land?”
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Cast
- Jim CarreyWalter Sparrow / Fingerling
- Virginia MadsenAgatha Sparrow / Fabrizia
- Logan LermanRobin Sparrow
- Danny HustonIsaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
- Lynn CollinsSuicide Blonde / Mrs. Dobkins / Young Fingerling's Mother
- Rhona MitraLaura Tollins
- Mark PellegrinoKyle Finch
- Ed LauterFather Sebastian
- David StifelHotel Clerk
- Corey StollSergeant Burns
Crew
- Joel SchumacherDirector
- Fernley PhillipsScreenplay
- Matthew LibatiqueDirector of Photography
- Harry Gregson-WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Mark StevensEditor
- Beau FlynnProducer
- Tripp VinsonProducer
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