The Number 23

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6.408

R

Genre: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Release year: 2007
Running time: 97 min
Country: Germany

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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Jim Carrey
Walter Sparrow / Fingerling
Logan Lerman
Robin Sparrow
Rhona Mitra
Laura Tollins
Lynn Collins
Suicide Blonde / Mrs. Dobkins / Young Fingerling's Mother
Danny Huston
Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
Virginia Madsen
Agatha Sparrow / Fabrizia
Mark Pellegrino
Kyle Finch
Corey Stoll
Sergeant Burns

Joel Schumacher
Director
Toby Emmerich
Executive Producer
Harry Gregson-Williams
Original Music Composer
Matthew Libatique
Director of Photography
Mali Finn
Casting
Bill Corso
Makeup Department Head
Richard Brener
Executive Producer
Bob Brown
Stunts

JPV852 11/28/2025 2:49:23AM 8.4

Very dark mystery-drama at a time (IIRC) Jim Carrey moved to doing more drama based movies. I had seen this one before probably back in 2007 but don't remember a whole lot. It's an okay film and Carrey for his part was fine, however Virginia Madsen was smoking hot. The movie did at least keep my attention until the end but not sure I'd revisit again. **3.0/5**

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