Review of Ruby Sparks (2012) by Dan H — 13 Nov 2012

A clever, fun film about how men perceive women and what they expect from women. In Ruby Sparks, struggling writer Calvin creates the girl of his dreams who he names Ruby Sparks. The more he writes about her, the more she slowly starts to seep into his world until one day he awakens to find her waiting for him in his house.

Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan are electric as the lovers and main characters, both putting on top notch performances. Zoe Kazan is particularly stunning, hot, gorgeous, cute, loveable and tragic as the titular character, Kazan also wrote the screenplay for the film so that's pretty cool too.

Dano acts his butt off and is believable and fantastic as Calvin, easily one of his best performances to date. Chris Messina is also superb as Calvin's brother, Harry, who reminded me of a young Paul Rudd and really sold his role here.

The film, while fun and quirky, is in reality about some pretty serious subjects and the film is not afraid to go to some pretty dark and scary places at times. A fantastic film from beginning to end, Ruby Sparks is a must-see for any film fan or writer.

It's sure to leave you with a feel-good feeling.