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At the Columbian: Stranger than Fiction; Borat

By Nathan Compton, Manager The Columbian Theatre

Stranger Than Fiction. Stranger Than Fiction is rated PG-13 and playsnightly at 6:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm only. Stranger Than Fiction stars Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, DustinHoffman.
Borat is also showing: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat is rated R and will play nightly at9:15 and Sunday at 3:15 pm only. Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen, KennethDavitian, Luenell , Pamela Anderson, Pat Haggerty.


Synopsis: Stranger than Fiction:

One morning, a seemingly average and generally solitary IRSagent named Harold Crick begins to hear a female voice narrating his every action, thought and feeling in alarmingly precise detail.

Harold's carefullycontrolled life is turned upside down by this narration only he can hear,and when the voice declares that Harold Crick is facing imminent death, he realizes he must find out who is writing his story and persuade her tochange the ending.

The voice in Harold's head turns out to be the oncecelebrated, but now nearly forgotten, novelist Karen "Kay" Eiffel, who is struggling to find an ending for what might be her best book. Her onlyremaining challenge is to figure out a way to kill her main character, butlittle does she know that Harold Crick is alive and well and inexplicably aware of her words and her plans for him.

To make matters worse, Kay'spublisher has dispatched a hard-nosed "assistant," Penny Escher, to forceKay to finish her novel and finish off Harold Crick. Desperate to take control of his destiny and avoid an untimely demise, Harold seeks help froma literary theorist named Jules Hilbert, who suggests that Harold might beable to change his fate by turning his story from a tragedy into a comedy.

Professor Hilbert suggests that Harold try to follow one of comedy's mostelemental formulas: a love story between two people who hate each other. Hissuggestion leads Harold to initiate an unlikely romance with a free-spirited baker named Ana Pascal.

As Harold experiences true love and true life forthe first time, he becomes convinced that he has escaped his fate, as hisstory seems to be taking on all the trappings of a comedy in which he will not, and cannot, die. But Harold is unaware that in a Karen Eiffel tragedy,the lead characters always die at exactly the moment when they have the mostto live for.

Borat is also showing: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat is rated R and will play nightly at9:15 and Sunday at 3:15 pm only. Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen, KennethDavitian, Luenell , Pamela Anderson, Pat Haggerty.

Synopsis: Borat

Borat Sagdiyev, Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalistfrom the State run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to theU.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.


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