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Ruby Sparks

(08/30/12 8:01am)

There’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about Ruby Sparks’ premise, but it’s still a pleasant confection of a movie with some interesting food for thought. Calvin (Paul Dano), a novelist and neurotic former teenage prodigy, is concerned that his glory days are far behind him. After his therapist (Elliott Gould) proposes a writing exercise, a literal dream girl (Zoe Kazan) named Ruby Sparks takes root in Calvin’s mind. In a strange and miraculous turn of events, Ruby manifests as a flesh-and-blood girl living in Calvin’s apartment and unaware of her origins on the page or of the strange power her “boyfriend” wields over her.