Will Ferrell thinks he is going mad when he starts hearing a voice (Emma Thompson) narrating his life. He is amazed to discover that his life is the subject of a book being written by a best-selling author. With Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dustin Hoffman.

Film Trivia

• To achieve a suitably haggard look, Emma Thompson wore no make-up throughout the shoot.
• While filming Will Ferrell wore an earpiece and Emma Thompson's narrative lines were fed through to him.
• The title of this movie comes from a Mark Twain quote, 'truth is stranger than fiction, but this is because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, truth is not'.
• Whenever Dustin Hoffman's character meets Will Ferrell's character he is always eating or drinking.

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