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| Character | Karen Eiffel???? | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Inspirational, Descriptive, Story conclusion, Pondering/Pensive | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 2006 | |
| Period | Contemporary | |
| Genre | Fantasy, Romance, Drama, Comedy | |
| Description | The Importance of the small things in life | |
| Details | 1 hr 43 minutes into the film | |
Summary
Harold Crick (Will Ferrel) is a boring and monotonous IRS agent with a repetitive life. One day, he starts hearing a voice narrating his life and soon finds out that's the voice of author Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson) who is writing the story of his life. When he finds out the author is going to kill him, he decides to change his monotonous life to change her mind. To advice him, he seeks the help of literature professor Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman).
In the end the author decides to keep Harold alive so, after getting hit by a bus for trying to save a boy, Harold ends up in the hospital. Accidentally his life was saved by a piece of shard metal from his wristwatch which prevented him to bleed to death.
This is the voice over speech that concludes the film where Karen talks about the importance of "the small things" in life. His girlfriend Ana has arrived at the hospital and brought him some Bavaria sugar cookies...
In the end the author decides to keep Harold alive so, after getting hit by a bus for trying to save a boy, Harold ends up in the hospital. Accidentally his life was saved by a piece of shard metal from his wristwatch which prevented him to bleed to death.
This is the voice over speech that concludes the film where Karen talks about the importance of "the small things" in life. His girlfriend Ana has arrived at the hospital and brought him some Bavaria sugar cookies...
Written by Administrator
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| KAREN: "As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort - not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And so it was: a wristwatch saved Harold Crick." |
