Stranger Than Fiction

Parents need to know that Stranger Than Fiction is a 2006 dramedy in which Will Ferrell plays a straitlaced IRS agent who starts to realize that his life is being narrated by a novelist suffering from writer's block. When the lead character first meets a woman (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) whose business he has been assigned to audit, the narrator goes into the beginnings of a sexual fantasy he's having about her that gets interrupted when the woman gets angry because he's staring at her breasts. Two characters are shown passionately kissing on a living room couch, and then the next scene shows them in bed after sex. Occasional strong profanity includes "f--k." The novelist is a chain-smoker. She's also obsessed with death: Her novels always end with the characters dying, and she's shown researching suicide by standing on the ledge of a tall building, and imagining herself driving off a bridge to avoid hitting a boy on a bicycle. A character is shown getting hit by a bus and is presumed dead. Overall, the movie explores the idea of living life to the fullest and not putting off the activities you've always wanted to try.