EmilyMedvec Santa Fe Tax Time Movies

Taxes can be off the map and stranger than fiction.  Why? First, they are due in a week. Second, this is when I watch my two favorite movies about IRS agents. Yes, I’m serious. Both films change my perspective with a positive attitude and my focus to just get them done.

One of movies takes place in northern New Mexico. The film title is Off The Map. Often like the experience of doing taxes. The story begins with an unpredictable visit from an IRS agent who eventually manages to find a family’s clearly off the grid home to perform an audit. The cast includes Jim True-Frost (IRS agent), Valentina de Angelis (11 year old storyteller), Sam Elliott (a father struggling with inner demons) and Joan Allen (a northern New Mexico free spirit). The film is a story that becomes a journey of self-discovery about taxes and people and the way unexpected new people become a catalyst for change.

The other film title is Stranger Than Fiction. It is all about death and taxes. It is strange and about fiction but not in the usual way. The IRS agent is Will Ferrell. His life is beyond mundane and as predictable as his watch until it is transformed by a voice narrating his life played by Emma Thompson. She is a writer with a decade of writer’s block. Since our IRS agent has become a character in someone else’s novel, he seeks the help of a literary professor (Dustin Hoffman) to help him determine if he is living a tragedy or comedy. In between, he discovers there is more to life than IRS and falls in love with the anarchist baker (Maggie Gyllenhaal) he is assigned to audit. In between, Queen Latifah adds connections to the reality of writing about death and taxes with style.

I encourage you to take a break from the data and numbers and all the stress doing taxes and practicing real estate can bring by renting either one of these gems. If you have seen them, do you give them a thumbs up?

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Mitch, love your comment! Thanks for stopping by this morning. Glad to hear you have seen these gems!

Deanna, given your story you will love these two films, especially from the IRS experience.

Karen, you are so right! Thanks for stopping by and welcome to ActiveRain!

10:28am • #26

>>There are two more days left, what's the rush?

Rugg's comment made me laugh.

This is the first year I've had to pay - the IRS will take the money from my bank account on the 17th, electronically.  Feels kinda weird having the IRS take money from me like that, but it's the most efficient way nowadays.

10:59am • #27
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Thanks for the movie suggestions, Emily. In my current empty-nest condo lifestyle, my husband and I often download and watch movies, something new for me.

11:20am • #28
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Hi Emily,  My wife gets these things done early and we already have our refund.  Just wish I could pay them knowing there was some fairness in the tax code.

12:23pm • #29
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Not being much of a movie buff, I've never even heard of these, but now I'll have to see if the library system or the local rental place has either of them.

1:28pm • #30
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Hi  Emily, Ok if you suggest.  A break from doing taxes to watch movies reminding me they are due?  lol

4:05pm • #31
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Hi Emily, both of those sound great! Somehow I am not any more motivated to finish up my taxes than I was before reading your post, though, lol.  Now I just want to go rent those movies!

4:35pm • #32
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Raymond, I sent everything on paper. Just another way to keep our local Post Office open!

Lottie, let me know what you think about these two films. I'm just addicted to them at tax time!

Bill, it sounds like your Mrs. Gillhespry knows how to manage time and money. As for fairness, no comment other than I lived on Capitol Hill in Washington DC for a quarter of a century and fairness never seemed to make it to the political table.

Bob, I'm LOL with you as long as you got an extension. Now make some popcorn as these flicks are winners.

Cari, like I reminded Bob #31, you most likely will be safe with an extension and once you see the films you may have a different take on those IRS agents. After all, they buy and sell homes in their off hours. Welcome to ActiveRain!

 

5:08pm • #33
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As usual this year I'll wait til the last day to file for en extension....even tho EVERY year, "THIS will be the year I get'em in on time......"

I'll check out the movies. Never heard of weither one. Thanks!

5:22pm • #34
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I'll have to look on Netfix, I hadn't heard of either movie. thanks for the tip.

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Dear Emily,

Sounds like a good recommendation.

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Emily! Always sharing something new-thanks!

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Travis, do what you need to do to make sure you are on the good side of IRS agents. And for a different take on them see these flicks!

Elisa, great! Movies are important just like taxes but differently. I hope you enjoy both of them. They are a good break between real estate!

Dorte, welcome to ActiveRain. I give these both a thumbs up!

Marie, there are so good "staging" hints hidden between the lines of these films. I'll be curious to know your take on them.

7:27pm • #38
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I have seen both of those movies and they are both very good.  Anything with Sam Elliot is good.

8:52pm • #39

Great article, taxes are a fact of life and I am thankful to have an income to have to pay taxes.  I just wish we had more responsible leaders spending our tax dollars.

Anita Day, Coldwell Banker Lake Chelan, Chelan, WA 98816

www.beautifullakechelan.com

9:18pm • #40
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Gene, like you I thought Sam Elliot was priceless in his role off the grid in northern New Mexico!

Anita, taxes are taxes and the only way I know to make a difference in how they are spent is to vote in every election... Local, Congressional and Presidential.

9:43pm • #41
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Thank you Emily, its nice to start a task on a positive spin rather than the negative anticipation we so often approach this task with.

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I haven't seen either of these movies, either, but will add them to the list! I always do my taxes right away so that I don't have to think about them.

5:10am • #43
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Bob, how we respond to "what is" can make all the difference in the world. I think you will enjoy these films. They shed a different light on more than taxes.

Sylvie, I look forward to seeing these films again every March which is when I can get everything to my CPA. Now take a break from real estate and find these very different "sleeper" films.

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Boy! I knew there was a reason I don't read posts after hours. I didn't realize until I had almost read your entire post that you were talking about TAXES!. I thought you were talking about TEXAS! Talk about Dyslexia. LOL!!

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