{"id":100404,"date":"2012-07-25T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=100404"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:10:21","slug":"ruby-sparks-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/07\/25\/ruby-sparks-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Sparks Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RUBY SPARKS<\/p>\n<p>Fox Searchlight Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten<\/p>\n<p>Grade:  B+<\/p>\n<p>Director:  Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter:  Zoe Kazan<\/p>\n<p>Cast:  Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas<\/p>\n<p>Screened at:  Fox, NYC, 7\/23\/12<\/p>\n<p>Opens: July 25, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If  you could turn your girlfriend or wife into anything you want\u2014have her do what you want when you want, even visit your mother every weekend and like it\u2014would you go for it?  Sounds great, but is it?  See \u201cRuby Sparks\u201d and you\u2019ll change your mind.  The movie, written and performed by Zoe Kazan, who is Paul Dano\u2019s real-life girlfriend, is imaginative, though not wholly original.  The idea of creating a living being out of either nothing or some non-human material is reminiscent of the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, wherein Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes an offering at the altar of Venus, who grants his wish.  He kisses her and her lips are warm.  He touches her breast and she comes to life.  The legend inspired the musical \u201cMy Fair Lady,\u201d though Professor Higgins is simply molder a lower-class woman into the haute societ\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuby Sparks\u201d seems inspired in turn by Episode 36 of a 1960 episode of \u201cThe Twilight Zone,\u201d featuring Keenan Wynn as Gregory, who brings Mary Roche\u2019s character Mary to life by simply using his dictation machine to control reality.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris\u2019s movie uses a most clever tagline, \u201cShe out of his mind,\u201d perfectly describing how a Calvin (Paul Dano), a writer, overcomes a ten-years\u2019 block by pecking out a Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan) whom he had met in two dreams, dreams that resulted in his fervently knocking out of a new novel.  When she appears in his kitchen, cooking eggs, he is astonished at first, nor can his brother, Harry (Chris Messina), believe him until he sees her as well.  Recognizing the benefits of this Stepford wife situation, if you will, Harry, who regularly counsels his brother to have more sex, i.e. to have some sex, encourages Calvin to manipulate her to his fancy.  When Calvin types \u201cSpeak fluent French,\u201d she can parle comme un natif.  When he types \u201cBecome deliriously happy,\u201d she can\u2019t stop bouncing on his bed.  To keep the picture out of a NC-17 rating, we in the audience are not privileged to see what else he may have written, but we have the impression that Calvin has become a happy man.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast!  Can you imagine a situation in which you\u2019d prefer to have a woman as a free agent, one who, though loving and loyal to you is not manipulated and controlled by you?  If not, there\u2019s another reason to see \u201cRuby Sparks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The ensemble acting is so good that we in the audience do not even wonder how Calvin is able to perform his magic.  We just look at what\u2019s going on as though this magic realism were an everyday occurrence in every relationship, and we are charmed by a performance from Annette Bening as Cal\u2019s hippie-ish mother Gertrude (reminiscent of Jane Fonda\u2019s performance as Grace in Bruce Beresford\u2019s \u201cPeace, Love &#038; Misunderstanding\u201d).  We can see how a person like this could attract a handsome Spanish man, Mort (Antonio Banderas).  In a welcome role as psychoanalyst Dr. Rosenthal, Elliott Gould is the kind of shrink we all should get if we need that kind of help, while Steve Coogan takes the role of Langdon Tharp, a rich party-giver, who without a touch of magic manipulates Ruby into joining him in the pool in her underwear. <\/p>\n<p>In a twist that some may not get, Zoe Kazan in real life is actually manipulating her real-life boyfriend Paul Dano by writing his role, one which he must follow to the letter.  This movie features Calvin\u2019s adorable dog, Scotty (Oscar), whose job is to be a catalyst for the writer to meet women\u2014realistically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R. 104 minutes \u00a9 2012 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 B+<\/p>\n<p>Acting \u2013 A-<\/p>\n<p>Technical \u2013 B+<\/p>\n<p>Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ruby-Sparks-Movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ruby-Sparks-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Sparks Movie\" title=\"Ruby Sparks Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ruby-Sparks-Movie.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ruby-Sparks-Movie-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUBY SPARKS Fox Searchlight 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