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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.