[Thanks to Iris Kolla for contributing.]
Instead, Harold did that which had terrified him before. That which had eluded him Monday through Friday for so many years.
One of them was to visit a movie theatre and watch Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam’s The Meaning of Life (1983) – we can see the extraordinary Mr. Creosote on screen.
Also, near the end of the movie, Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal watch Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman (1966).
Images from Marc Forster’s Stranger Than Fiction (2006).