The Number 23

(2007)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 3,620 votes

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama

Year: 2007

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Germany, United States of America

Director: Джоэл Шумахер

Cast: Джим Керри, Вирджиния Мэдсен, Логан Лерман, Дэнни Хьюстон, Линн Коллинз, Рона Митра, Марк Пеллегрино, Эд Лотер, Дэвид Стифел, Кори Столл

Plot

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.

On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him with a dog bite and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.