stranger than fiction anger me so much and i sign up on imdb just to write this review . strange than fiction be a surprisingly complex and touch and think provoke movie until the very end . once you suspend multiple lapse of logic ( why do not will ferrell hear emma thompson voice 10 year ago when she fist start write her book . the phone rang . the phone rang again . how could she not know it him call . etc . ) and the movie challenge one thought about mortality and fate and and sacrifice . the brief history of literary theme provide by dustin hoffman should especially entertain former english major . and maggie gyllenhaal be always a pleasure and even though will ferrell might just a easily be an ax murderer a a bumbling soul . her quick trust of him be a mighty big leap of faith . ah and but the end . until the very end and i would have give positive star to this movie . the movie a a metaphor for life journey and a a tribute to the notion of write true and a a reminder that great literature be either comedy or tragedy and but not both and be outstanding . the entire movie lead the viewer to understand and accept the moment of will ferrell fate . and no matter how endear a character he may have become and we know full well why we will accept the end . the last act occurs and the screen go white and the credit roll . a profound and powerful end to an almost perfect film . an end that would have be debate for week . no . no credit roll . say it isn not so . say hollywood do not tack on another 10 minute of crap that completely undermine the integrity and heart of the movie . dustin hoffman get it right when he say and it no longer a masterpiece while it ok. an apt review of the movie . except to me and it wasn not even ok. i be so offended about the betrayal of write true and about the decision to pander the film that i actually burst into angry tear explain this on the ride home from the movie . i do not often cry . i could care less about most movie and but i be still angry about this one . my question for zack helm and the writer and be this represent do the original movie end when the screen go white . and be you force by the vapid movie power that be to tack on an end unfaithful to the core of the movie . or do you tack that maudlin end on yourself . i have read youre brilliant . i hope your original script end the movie the first time . i know zack helm will never see this review and and i have be unable to find a contact for him to ask myself . but and please and movie goer and be i the only one who feel this way about strange than fiction . one good thing come from me see this movie represent i doubly admire lose in translation now .