The Number 23

Mysterium, Thriller

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
Michelle Arthur	Sybil
Mark Pellegrino	Kyle Flinch
Paul Butcher	Young Fingerling / Young Walter
David Stifel	Hotel Clerk

Regissör	Joel Schumacher
Producent	Beau Flynn; Mike Drake; Richard Brener
Manusförfattare	Fernley Phillips
Fotograf	Matthew Libatique
Kompositör	Harry Gregson-Williams

Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), an animal control officer, is introduced by his wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) to a mysterious book: The Number 23. As Walter continues to read it, he notices startling similarities between the plot of the book and the events in his own life. The book's main character, a detective called The Fingerling, explains that his name came from a children's book he once read; Walter shortly thereafter finds this same book. The book continues to chronicle the life of a character called "The Suicide Blonde", a woman who is driven to insanity by the presence of the number 23 in all aspects of her life. Agatha and her son Robin (Logan Lerman) discover that by reading the 23rd word of every 23rd page, secret messages are spelled out. These messages lead Walter into a chaotic chain of events that furthers his paranoia, eventually leading him to the realization that he himself was the author of The Number 23 during his stay in a mental institution after his father's death, whose suicide note was comprised entirely of numbers adding up to 23.