The Number 23 (2007)

Walter (Jim Carrey) becomes obsessed with the number 23 and starts to see the number more and more in his life. Hilarity ensues.

Trivia: This is the 23rd project Joel Schumacher has directed. Virginia Madsen has 14 letters in her name, Jim Carrey has 9, 9 + 14 = 23. Joel Schumacher has 14 letters in his name, Carrey has 9, 9 + 14 = 23. Elisabeth Shue was originally cast in the female lead, but had to decline because she was pregnant. Elisabeth Shue could not have been in the movie anyway, her name only has 13 letters (13 + 9 [letters in Carrey’s name]= 22). The address of the bookstore is 599. 5 + 9 + 9 = 23. Walter's room at the asylum was 318. 31 – 8 = 23. Walter works for the Animal Control Department. The number of letters in "Animal Control Department"? 23. The dog in the movie is named NED. N is the 14th letter of the alphabet; E is the fifth; and D is the fourth. 14 + 5 + 4 = 23. The numbers on Walter's car add up to 23 (906 8HT). The film was released in the US on February 23, 2007. Jim Carrey plays the parts of Walter Sparrow and Fingerling, Walter Sparrow has 13 letters and Fingerling has 10, 13 + 10 = 23.

This is weird. I saw this movie on March 18th, March has five letters in it. 5 + 18 = 23. I am posting this review on March 20th, March is the third month. 3 + 20 = 23. I have 5 nieces and nephews, 2 from my sister and 3 from my brother. I grew up in a house with 2 adults and 3 kids. The movie theater I went to see this film in had trouble with the projector, it took them 23 minutes to get it working. A small popcorn and a small root beer cost me $23. There were 23 people in the theater. I walked out of the theater at 7:23. It took me 23 minutes to get home. From the base of the steps at my apartment it took me 23 steps to get to my door. The movie was in theater...wait for it...24 (Dang it, that would have been so cool). Okay, enough of this nonsense how about the movie? Although I didn’t like Jim Carrey in Man On The Moon his other serious roles have been pretty good. He seems to have the intensity it takes to play serious. Virginia Madsen was also pretty good, although she just had to play a normal woman whose husband is starting to freak out. It was pretty cool how they got the number 23 into the movie as many times as they did. It was kind of fun trying to fit it into this post as much as I could. Did you notice the plot synopsis for the movie has 23 words in it? I am pretty proud of that. Okay, I may have exaggerated 2 or 3 other times. Oh yeah, and the number of times the number “23” was typed in this post? You guessed it...