“Ruby Sparks” is the story of a
novelist’s vision who inexplicably comes to life, only to prove far more
complicated than even he could have imagined. With a light touch and a
dash of magical realism, the first screenplay from actress and playwright Zoe
Kazan attracted the attention of Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, the
married team who directed the run-away hit “Little Miss Sunshine.” The
film takes an unpredictable route into fantasy, identity and the ways we invent
love – and how love can re-invent us.
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| Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox |
Paul Dano plays Calvin, a celebrated author in his younger years who hasn’t had
a follow up novel years after his first breakthrough novel. Struggling
with writer’s block, disappointed and unfulfilled, his close relationships are
with his dog and his brother. Calvin who is cut off and isolated is constantly
being urged by his married brother Harry (Chirs Messina) to get out, live, date
and write. Finally finding in his imagination a muse for his novel and with his
old typewriter, he creates the perfect girl he named Ruby. Barely done
with his first chapter, to his astonishment that his character, Ruby (Zoe
Kazan) has magically sprung to life and arrived in his kitchen where she is
cooking eggs.
Life changed as Calvin believes that he willed the perfect woman into his life
by the sheer power of his imagination. Ruby leaps off the page and into the
kitchen of his house, filling it with her warm and joyful personality. Is he
hallucinating? Is this a fantasy? Or is the lovely Ruby Sparks a flesh
and blood girl: the girl he has been waiting for? Whether real or imaginary the
delightful Ruby turns into a muse who helps Calvin rekindle his passion for
writing and his passion for life.
Joining the
incredibly talented couple Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine,”“There Will Be Blood”)
and Kazan (“Revolutionary Road,” “It’s Complicated”) in the movie are Annette
Bening who plays Calvin’s free-spirited hippy mother and Antonio Banderas plays
her artistic and flamboyant lover.
Find out what will happen to “Ruby Sparks” when it opens September 19 in select
theaters from 20th Century Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures) to be
distributed by Warner Bros.
Check out 20th Century Fox’s YouTube http://www.youtube.com/20thcenturyfoxph
for the trailer.
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