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The Number 23
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
R
2007
1h 38m
Mystery
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Thriller
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6.4
7%
56%
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Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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Cast of The Number 23
Jim Carrey
Walter Sparrow / Fingerling
Virginia Madsen
Agatha Sparrow / Fabrizia
Logan Lerman
Robin Sparrow
Danny Huston
Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
Lynn Collins
Suicide Blonde / Mrs. Dobkins / Young Fingerling's Mother
Rhona Mitra
Laura Tollins
Mark Pellegrino
Kyle Finch
Ed Lauter
Father Sebastian
David Stifel
Hotel Clerk
Corey Stoll
Sergeant Burns
Bud Cort
Dr. Sirius Leary
Michelle Arthur
Sybil
Paul Butcher
Young Fingerling / Young Walter
Troy Kotsur
Barnaby
Patricia Belcher
Dr. Alice Mortimer
Shannon Gayle
Lucinda
Bob Zmuda
Desk Clerk
Lesli Margherita
Attractive Coed
Tara Karsian
Box Company Clerk
Walter Soo Hoo
Chinese Restaurant Owner
Joel Schumacher
Director
Fernley Phillips
Writer
Beau Flynn
Producer
Tripp Vinson
Producer
The Number 23 Ratings & Reviews
mickerdoo
June 23, 2025
Keeps you engaged and is creatively shot and edited. Liked the noir feel. But didn’t quite get the catharsis I wanted from the reveal.
CNN.com
Tom Charity
For all its gimmicky numerology, The Number 23 just doesn't add up.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Pretty much every important date in history...can be teased to fit the pattern. What can't be hammered out of this fixation, apparently, is a coherent movie.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Schumacher is as much to blame for this mess as Carrey is. Over and over again, he mistakes looming shadows and manic outbursts for tension, and his ponderous, ham-fisted directorial style creates more questions than it answers.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
It's no longer thrilling or even campy. It's just embarrassing.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Watching Carrey babble gibberish about the sinister nature of 23 in scene after hyperventilating scene isn't any more fun or enlightening than listening to street-corner lunatics discourse on similar topics.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
There are 23 things wrong with this movie. Or maybe there are 24. Or 165. To be honest, I lost count.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Number 23 is an accidental comedy starring a deadly serious Jim Carrey.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The author's obsession with the number 23 becomes Walter's, and we're treated to a lot of examples of numbers that add up to 23, which means a lot of scenes in which people say things like, 'What's 14 plus 9? 23!' and look haunted.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Carrey owns this movie. He's in virtually every scene, and there's no taking one's eyes from him.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The main test of a twisty thriller is, would you watch it again? You won't, because the solution turns out to be both uncomplicated and cliché.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Though students of formulaic screenwriting may figure this mystery out long before Walter does, there won't be much satisfaction in it because it is totally preposterous.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
How do we loathe thee, The Number 23? Let us count the ways.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Charlie Chaplin did not star in The Wolfman. Jerry Lewis did not attempt Hamlet. Jonathan Winters never appeared in Death of a Salesman. Thank heavens.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Director Joel Schumacher never knows when enough is enough.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Newcomer Fernley Phillips' screenplay eventually binds itself into too tight a knot. But it also has some admirable ambitions about family, responsibility, memory.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker
A thriller like this needs to pack a lot of firepower on the backend. Unfortunately, all we get is a weak, much-anticipated little pop.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The only fright in the nominal thriller The Number 23 is how shaggy, gaunt, and wiped out Jim Carrey looks.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The film is a mess, a seat-squirming waste of time so boring and uninspired I can't imagine anyone falling head over heels in love with.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
This review's opening sentence, the really dull, pointless one that you are reading at this very moment, is comprised of exactly 23 words.
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