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Rating: Harold Crick was a normal person living in a normal city, doing a normal job.
A single tax agent, his life was dominated by numbers. In everything he did, from when he got up in the morning to when he returned from work in the evening, logic and algebra became an integral part of his life: he counted the number of times he brushed his teeth, how many steps there were from his house to the office, he counted everything.
Until something broke that daily routine of calculations and slippers. As he was about to go to the office, Harold (Will Ferrell) heard a voice-over talking, but this voice wasn’t talking to him, it was talking about him. It narrated his entire life and what was yet to happen to him, as if he was watching a movie about himself, complete with a narrating voice at the beginning.
This, along with falling in love with Ana Pascal (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an unconventional baker he used to audit for work, would radically change Harold's life. He began to do what he dared not do before: change his daily habits, which were a kind of protection, a vicious circle for him, realize his dreams, buy an electric guitar, and learn to play it. With the help of Professor Hilber (Dustin Hoffman), he will discover that someone is writing a book about him.
The movie will focus on Harold who has to race against time: find the writer before she finishes the novel to change the ending.
A touching, funny, and dramatic comedy at the same time, undoubtedly an intelligent comedy compared to the various and dull comedies that are routinely released every Christmas, which have downplayed the role of comedy by associating it with something not to be taken too seriously.
What about the actors: they are great too, starting with the same Will Ferrell, who plays the protagonist; a well-chosen decision, he is perfect for that role. Dustin Hoffman also holds his own, and I must say he, in the professor's role, was also a well-chosen decision, just like the depressed writer played by the talented Emma Thompson and the vibrant Maggie Gyllenhaal. One last note for Queen Latifah who plays the writer's assistant because she has "writer's block."
The plot may be one that's already been heard, like most movies over the past ten years (in the sense they've already invented everything), but the movie is light and pleasantly watchable, without too much effort, without too much lightness, as is customary for an intelligent comedy.
"No, it's not schizophrenia, it's just a voice in my head." Harold Crick
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