The Number 23 is an eerie fairytale-ish film in the vein of the Brothers Grimm, and delves into fate, coincidence and how the most mundane choices a person can make day to day can change the whole course of his/her life. It also serves to showcase the fact that, when you look hard enough, there are patterns everywhere.
The film stars Jim Carrey, who I much prefer in dramatic turns like this to his plastic-faced dopiness in comedies such as Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber, etc. This time around, Carrey plays dogcatcher Walter Sparrow, who is married to Agatha (played by Virginia Madsen).
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When Walter receives a book, The Number 23, from his wife on his 32nd birthday, he becomes obsessed with it and seeks to find out about its elusive author, Topsy Kretts. Along the way, Walter also starts to see the number 23 anywhere and everywhere, as well as the parallels between his life and the life of the main character in the book. There’s also a dog named Ned that keeps popping up.
The Number 23 is presented in anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Audio is provided in either Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround or 2.0 Stereo Surround.
Extras include Director Joel Schumacher’s commentary; the 22-minute featurette “The Making of The Number 23” that includes interviews with cast and crew; the 11-minute featurette “Creating the World of Fingerling” that focuses on the visual aspect of bringing the book to life; 16 deleted/alternate scenes, including an alternate opening; the 25-minute featurette “The 23 Enigma”, which includes interviews with Schumacher and Phillips, as well as Loyola Marymount University mathematics professors and numerology expert Josh Siegel; and an 11-minute featurette that has a numerologist explaining how you can find your own life path numbers—if you dare.
For those who enjoyed Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was another odd-ish film delving into mind-bending ideas, The Number 23 might be just your speed. While The Number 23 certainly isn’t much of a scary film, leaning more towards the eerie and disturbing instead, it does serve to give numerologists (and anyone else fascinated with either numbers or patterns) a vehicle.
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