OMG, half a page up, I’m there from the past saying my wife and I saw and enjoyed this movie!!!We saw Stranger than Fiction at the second-run theater--let's hear it for $2 movies! I was expecting a decent movie and it was a bit better than I'd hoped. I call it a 4/5. It was entertaining, quirky, and made good use of Ferrel. I particularly enjoyed the bus scene, with him on the seat in the flexy middle of a double-long bus. It was imaginative, perfectly played, and had a great, weird and normal visual quality.
I also liked that they played it straight with Harold and Prof. Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) -- that the Hoffman's character, once invested, took Crick seriously and their relationship was played without irony. It maintained the realism (of the surreal) and humanity of Crick. It also made for the nicely done tallying of comic vs tragic moments. I've been tempted to employ that in my own life
Definitely worth a rental now that it's out on video, if you've not seen it.