The Number 23

Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) stumbles onto a fascinating book entitled The Number 23. It’s a story about an individual that becomes obsessed with the number “23” and its recurrence in his everyday life. As Walter reads the novel and sees the character surrendering himself to his own paranoia, he too begins to experience similar feelings of euphoria and sexual arousal. Walter starts doing research and realizes that he and his wife met was when they were both 23. Time and day of birth and his IDs all come to the number 23. In fact with time, Walter begins to spot parallels between the book and the real life situations around him, much to the displeasure of his wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen), who gets concerned about his behavior. His confusion continues to escalate and he starts to believe that the novel is actually based on his own life. When he discovers the main character’s descent into madness, transformation into a serial killer, and finally grisly demise in the book, he panics. If the story is indeed based on Walter’s life, then he will have to find a way to prevent his own impending doom from ever taking place.

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