The Number 23

Animal control officer 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.

One of the most critically reviled wide releases of 2007, this Jim Carrey thriller was dismissed as a lurid, self-serious potboiler that squanders its star's dramatic ambitions in a muddled, paranoid narrative. The rare defenders existed — Richard Roeper among them — but the film landed on multiple worst-of-year lists, and Carrey earned a Razzie nomination for his trouble.