GENRE: Romantic-Comedy
RATING: R for sexual language & drugs
RUNTIME: 1 hour and 44 minutes
STARRING: Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood)
Zoe Kazan (It’s Complicated), Chris Messina (Damages)
DIRECTOR: Jon Dayton & Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine)
WRITER: Zoe Kazan (newcomer)
PLOT: A novelist creates a female character that comes to life and is unaware that he willed her into existence.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 Paul Dano is a great actor. I love watching his shock and awkwardness in this film. His chemistry with Zoe Kazan works well but that could also be because they have been dating for a long time before this film was made.
2 Unfortunately, the plot of this film has a bunch of similarities to Stranger Than Fiction. Just imagine Emma Thompson’s character interacting more with Will Ferrell who is clueless that he is just a character in her book. Fiction does this better than Sparks is able to.
3 There is this great sequence where Dano’s writer makes Ruby a little too desperate for him which leads to some co-dependent hilarity.
4 Chris Messina does a great job as Dano’s borther, Harry. I can’t put my finger on why but I guess he just seemed so believable.
5 While the film is pretty light for the majority of the running time, it gets pretty dark and disturbing near the end. Not sure if I agreed with such a tonal shift.
RECOMMENDATION: An okay video rental
UPCOMING REVIEWS: Bourne Legacy
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