The Number 23
| The Number 23 | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Joel Schumacher |
| Produced by |
Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson |
| Written by | Fernley Phillips |
| Starring |
Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston |
| Music by | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography | Matthew Libatique |
| Edited by | Mark Stevens |
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Contrafilm,
Firm Films |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Release date
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $77.6 million |
The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Jim Carrey, the film was released in the United States on February 23, 2007. This is the second film to pair Schumacher and Carrey, the first being Batman Forever.
The Number 23 was considered to be unsuccessful both critically and commercially. Carrey was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for his performance in the film, but he lost to Eddie Murphy for Norbit.
The plot involves an obsession with the 23 enigma, which is the idea that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, or to some number connected to 23.
Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) is an Animal Control Officer and married to Agatha (Virginia Madsen); they have a son, Robin (Logan Lerman). At a bookstore, Agatha begins looking at a book titled The Number 23 written by Topsy Kretts. She later gives Walter the book as a birthday present.
Walter starts reading the book, noticing odd similarities between himself and the main character, a detective who refers to himself as "Fingerling". Walter begins to have dreams of murdering Agatha. Walter becomes obsessed with the number 23 - just as Fingerling does in the book - and tries to warn Agatha that the number is going to "come after her". She tells him he is crazy.
Walter comes to realize that he is Topsy Kretts, having written the book as a way to rid himself of the guilt he felt over murdering a woman named Laura Tollins (Rhona Mitra). He was never suspected of the crime, and a man named Kyle Flinch (Mark Pellegrino) was convicted and imprisoned instead. He then remembers that he had dated Tollins 13 years earlier, but that she had left him for Flinch. Walter stabbed her to death in a jealous rage, and left the scene of the crime moments before Flinch arrived and touched the knife, leaving his fingerprints and implicating himself in the murder. Wracked with guilt, Walter decided to kill himself and began writing a suicide note, but found that he could not stop writing; the note became the book. He then jumped out of a window, but survived and was left with amnesia.
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