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 ...

t’s been a strange summer season so for at the art house. Unlike last year, which was dominated early both critically and at the box office by “Midnight in Paris,” “The Tree of Life” and “Beginners,” ...

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 ...

Paul Dano and girlfriend Zoe Kazan got together on set Dano says the couple set personal 'boundaries' on-set, but broke them 'Ruby Sparks' is now on DVD, Blu-Ray Paul Dano has been traditionally one ...

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, ...

The duo that brought us "Little Miss Sunshine" is back with an inventive romantic fantasy starring Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. By Todd McCarthy The team behind indie blockbuster "Little Miss Sunshine" ...

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 ...

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.