The amusing but ultimately tepid comedy Ruby Sparks has a provocative and potentially harrowing premise. At times, the ingenuity and insight of screenwriter and star Zoe Kazan is impressive, even ...

Ruby Sparks is the engagingly off-kilter story of a writer, the girl of his dreams and the power of his pen. Real-life couple Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan star as lovebirds Calvin (the writer) and Ruby ...

“Ruby Sparks” does not exist in some vacuum of wholesale originality. You could argue that the “Pygmalion” myth is just one of the many stories that have covered similar ground in the past, both ...

You know how a Charlie Kaufman script will begin with one kinda neat metafictional idea (a puppeteer creates a portal into John Malkovich’s brain; a theater director creates a work so ambitious it ...

The title character of Ruby Sparks is a 26-year-old painter from Dayton, Ohio played by Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the film's screenplay, She has bangs and wears brightly colored tights. Her first ...

It’s been six long years since Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ narrative feature debut, the much beloved “Little Miss Sunshine.” But the directing duo is back with a new film, “Ruby Sparks,” and ...

The term Manic Pixie Dream Girl, coined in 2005 by AV Club film critic Nathan Rabin, refers to a female character whose bubbly sensibility, behaviors and attitudes push the young male lead toward a ...

Ruby Sparks (R) (104 min.) — Authors are instructed to write what they know. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) already did that and became a literary phenomenon; a new Salinger, some say. Now Calvin is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rated R. 100 minutes. At the Esquire. It’s one thing to introduce an original and interesting idea, but it’s quite another to take that idea and expand it, ...

This undated film image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures shows Paul Dano in a scene from "Ruby Sparks." (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Films, Merrick Morton) This undated film image released by Fox ...

Written by actress Zoe Kazan for her and her boyfriend, Paul Dano, Ruby Sparks is a fairly engaging parable about the crap men project on their wives and girlfriends, the sort of controlling fantasies ...

You already know this: Spend any amount of time in a relationship with anyone—friendship, professional, or otherwise—and you’ll find something you want to change in them. He chews with his mouth open.