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Release year: 2007

Storyline

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.

Top credits

Directors

Joel Schumacher

Writers

Fernley Phillips

Cast

Jim Carrey — Walter Sparrow, Fingerling
Virginia Madsen — Agatha Sparrow, Fabrizia
Logan Lerman — Robin Sparrow
Danny Huston — Isaac French, Dr. Miles Phoenix

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Did you know

• Jim Carrey claims to have been obsessed with The Number 23 long before being a part of the movie. His production company is called JC 23 Entertainment. It was coincidence that his father was an accountant and he played the saxophone, like his character in the movie.

• Jim Carrey was paid exactly $23 million to act in this movie.

• The plot is largely based on the philosophical writings of William S. Burroughs, who came to believe that the number 23 held mystical significance after encountering it during significant moments in his life. Burroughs eventually wrote the screenplay "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz" around this concept, in which he used the deathbed ramblings of mobster Dutch Schultz as a springboard for telling a story based around Schultz's life - which, in Burrough's vision, revolved around recurrences of the number 23.