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6.4Animal 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.
Cast
- Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow / Fingerling
- Virginia Madsen as Agatha Sparrow / Fabrizia
- Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow
- Danny Huston as Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
- Lynn Collins as Suicide Blonde / Mrs. Dobkins / Young Fingerling's Mother
- Rhona Mitra as Laura Tollins
Themes
- hotel room
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- obsession
- sadomasochism
- psychological thriller
- killer
- family
- numbers
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
220,533 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
7%
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Joel Schumacher
- Written by
- Fernley Phillips
- Produced by
- Beau Flynn Tripp Vinson
- Starring
- Jim Carrey Virginia Madsen Logan Lerman Danny Huston
- Cinematography
- Matthew Libatique
- Edited by
- Mark Stevens
- Music by
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production companies
- Contrafilm Firm Films
- Distributed by
- New Line Cinema
- Release date
- February 23, 2007 ( 2007-02-23 )
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $77.6 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher. Jim Carrey stars as a man who becomes obsessed with the 23 enigma once he reads about it in a strange book that seemingly mirrors his own life. The film was released in the United States on February 23, 2007, by New Line Cinema. This is the second film to pair Schumacher and Carrey, the first being Batman Forever. The film was a financial success, grossing $77.6 million against a $30 million budget, but received generally negative reviews from critics. Despite this, Carrey was proud of the film, saying: "I was able to explore the darker edges of my personality, which really was a blast and something different for me."
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Number 23” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.