Number 23 is the 2007 American psychological thriller written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher. Jim Carrey plays a man who is obsessed with puzzles when he reads about it in a strange book that seems to reflect his own life. The film was released in the United States on February 23, 2007. This is the second film that paired Schumacher and Carrey, the first being Batman Forever. The film grossed $ 77.6 million and received an 8% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
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Plot
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer married to Agatha; they have a son, Robin. At the bookstore, Agatha began to look at a book called The Number 23 written by Topsy Kretts. He then gave Walter the book as a birthday gift. Walter began reading the book, realizing the strange similarity between himself and the main character, a detective who called himself "Fingerling." Reflecting the detective, Walter became obsessed with 23 puzzles, the idea that all the incidents and events were directly connected to number 23, or to some number connected to 23. When he tried to warn Agatha about the number, she told him that she was crazy.
Walter's obsession led him to believe that the book had a secret insight into his own life. When he reads that Fingerling killed his girlfriend, Walter started dreaming about killing Agatha. Agatha referred her to her friend, Isaac French, who suggested that Walter find the author of the book if she wanted an answer. Walter's quest led him to discover the murder of Laura Tollins. Now trusting the book as a shrouded confession, Walter seeks his murderer.
The evidence found in the psychiatric hospital reveals Walter is actually Topsy Kretts, after writing the book as a way to free himself from the guilt he felt for Tollins's murder. He was never suspected of committing a crime, and a man named Kyle Flinch was convicted and jailed instead. Walter had dated Tollins 13 years earlier, but he left it for Flinch. Walter stabbed Tollins to death in a jealous rage and left the scene, moments before Flinch came and touched a knife, was involved in the murder. Burdened with guilt, Walter decided to commit suicide and began writing a suicide note, but found that he could not stop writing; the record ended up being a book. He survived his suicide attempt, but the resulting head injury left him suffering from amnesia.
Fearing he would hurt his family, he left home and moved to the same hotel where he tried to commit suicide. Agatha found Walter at the hotel and assured him that he was no longer the right person when he wrote the book. He insists that he is a murderer and tells Agatha to leave before he kills her as well. He leaves the hotel and runs into the street, where he almost let himself be hit by a bus. Walter stepped out of the way at the last minute when he realized his son was watching. Walter surrendered to the police and waited for punishment, having been told that the judge might be lenient to him. A funeral procession took place in front of Tollins's grave, where it was implied that his body was finally laid to rest, as Flinch observed, a free man.
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Cast
- Jim Carrey as Walter Paul Sparrow/Detective Fingerling
- Paul Butcher as Young Walter/Fingerling
- Virginia Madsen as Agatha Pink-Sparrow/Fabrizia
- Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow
- Danny Huston as Isaac French/Dr. Miles Phoenix
- Partner Rhona as Laura Tollins
- Bud Cort ( uncredited ) as Dr. Leary
- Chris Lajoie as Benton
- Mark Pellegrino as Kyle Flinch
- Lynn Collins as Isobel Lydia Hunt ("The Suicide Blonde")/Mrs. Dobkins/Young Fingerling's mother
- Michelle Arthur as Sybil
- Ed Lauter as Pastor Sebastian
- Corey Stoll as Sergeant Burns
Reception
The film has an 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 189 reviews; the average score is 3.5. The consensus of the site reads: "Jim Carrey has been sharp in some non-comedic roles, but this horrible, overheated, and self-serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, uninvolved, and mostly confusing. "From some critics who love movies, Richard Roeper and critic George Pennachio of KABC-TV in Los Angeles stand out, as they gave this movie a" 2nd thumbs up "rating on Ebert & amp; Roeper (Pennachio stands for Roger Ebert due to Ebert's disease).
However, Michael Phillips, filling for Ebert at the 2007 Worst show (aired January 12, 2008) entered The Number 23 at No. 1. 7 on the worst list (Roeper did not include it in his list). Peter Travers of Rolling Stone declared the film to be the worst stellar vehicle of the year on its worst movie list in 2007, while Colm Andrew of Manx Independent said the movie "provides long-winded, confusing narration with just a few elements of style thrown in ".
The film was nominated for two Teens Choice Awards. For her performance, Carrey was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for the Worst Actor at the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards, but lost to Eddie Murphy for Norbit .
box office
On the opening weekend, Number 23 took $ 14,602,867, coming behind Ghost Rider ' the second weekend. After five weeks of release, the film grossed $ 35,193,167 at the domestic box office and $ 42,373,648 overseas, totaling worldwide $ 77,566,815.
Home media
The film was released in Region 1 DVD on July 24, 2007; This release contains the theatrical and additional versions, which run four additional minutes. Specific features include deleted scenes, such as the opening of more abstract alternatives and alternative endings that provide some more details about Walter's prison sentences and hints at the possibility that his son may experience the same obsession as his father. The disc also includes interviews with mathematicians, psychologists, and numerologists. DVD shows a movie on a set of 23 chapters. On August 24, 2007, The Number 23 has earned $ 27.7 million from a DVD rental copy. This is the last DVD under the Infinifilm library
See also
- 23 (movie)
- Retrograde amnesia
References
External links
- Number 23 on IMDb
- Number 23 in the TCM Movie Database
- Number 23 in Box Office Mojo
- Number 23 in Rotten Tomatoes
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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