the Mind’s Chew Toy

Plot: When his wife buys him a book for his birthday, dog catcher Walter Sparrow (Carrey) is unimpressed. As he reads the book, however, he begins to discover that he and the degenerate main character share some remarkable similarities. As Walter continues to read, and both he and the main character began obsessing about the number 23, the main character commits a horrible crime…and Walter becomes convinced he’s fated to follow the same path.

Plot: Bank security expert Jack Stanfield (Ford) is a master at designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. When a ruthless criminal mastermind (Bettany) kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief’s own impenetrable system of subterfuge and false identities to beat him at his own game.