The Number 23

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6.414

R

Genre: Thriller Mystery Crime
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
Mark Pellegrino
Kyle Finch
Danny Huston
Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
Virginia Madsen
Agatha Sparrow / Fabrizia
Corey Stoll
Sergeant Burns

Keith Goldberg
Executive Producer
Matthew Libatique
Director of Photography
Joel Schumacher
Director
Dan Kneece
"A" Camera Operator
Bob Brown
Stunts
Andrew Laws
Production Design
Donald Dowd
Casting Consultant
Richard Brener
Executive Producer

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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