Ruby Sparks

This movie has "me" written ALL over it ( and yes... mostly because it has Paul Dano in the cast... who i LOVE!). Calvin (Dano) is a young, and very successful novelist. He wrote his first and only critically acclaimed best seller when he was 19, which is enough to keep people calling him a genius and to get phone numbers from random girls, but he has been uninspired and unpublished ever since. He lives in his expensive house with his dog Scotty who pees like a girl which only adds to Calvin's own feeling of inadequacy. On a routine meeting with Calvin's psychologist, he is given a writing assignment in the attempt to end his writer's block. His assignment is to write a  fictional character who would find him, with all his insecurities, attractive and who would think his dog was cute, even though he pees in the squatting position.

That night Calvin dreams of this girl. In his dream... he's walking Scotty in the park. Scotty runs away from him and leads him to a girl named Ruby (Zoe Kazan). Ruby is laying on a blanket drawing, she's an artist. She's quirky and cute and silly and sweeps Calving right off his feet. Calvin wakes up and can't get to his type writer fast enough. He writes pages and pages about his dream girl Ruby. Then.... some thing unexpected happens... something impossible happens. There's a girl in his house! Not just any girl.... Ruby is in his house acting like she's been there all this time! She jumped right off of the page and into real life! After the shock of the situation passes and after Calvin accepts that she is not a hallucination but a real physical person, he sits back and enjoys his new life of being  "in love".

Everything is passionate and blissful until reality sets in. Even when you find the love of your life.. no one is perfect or will do what you want them to all the time... or wait... unless you have the power to make them. Calvin realizes that all he has to do is type the words and he can make Ruby do anything. Ruby is at Calvin's command with just the tap of the keyboard. If you had the power to change the mind of someone you love... would you? What about the little annoying habits or that time he or she talked a little too long to your attractive friend? What about when you thought they were thinking of leaving you or wanted a little too much space? If you could stop them with the touch of a button, would you??? Tough questions.

Ruby Sparks is fun and heartfelt and Dano and Kazan are brilliant together. The storyline is outlandish and wonderful... full of psychological questions that boggle the mind. Ruby Sparks addresses issues at the heart of every romantic relationship. It's in a genre of it's own... it's a romantic thriller. I LOVED it!