Under Mr. Gillespie’s admirably directed seriousness of tone, the performers, particularly Mr. Gosling, Ms. Mortimer, Mr. Schneider, Ms. Clarkson, Ms. Gardner and Mr. Reid, never miss a beat.
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11/15/07
Lars And The Real Girl (2007)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:27
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Lars and the Real Girl could've so easily been a one-joke movie. But the talented cast, a great script, and direction never condescends to its character or the audience.
Theatrical Release:2007
Box Office: $5,802,820
Synopsis: As the title character, Ryan Gosling is a strange but likeable young man who manages to keep down a job but keeps mostly to himself. He only leaves the garage where he lives when his older brother... [More]
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Director: Craig Gillespie
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Reviews for Lars And The Real Girl
Top Critic...we're surprised to find that it's possible to feel a real emotional attachment to an anatomically correct girl made of quality plastic.
11/03/07
Top CriticLars and the Real Girl remains suspended somewhere between perversity and pap, with only Gosling hinting at the mingling that might have been.
11/02/07
Top CriticA sweet little fable about how a delusional man-child is helped by the loving ministrations of his family and community, the kind of throwback flick where human nature is seen as inherently good -- a notion so quaint that it feels damn near buoyant.
11/02/07
Top CriticIt's the script by Nancy Oliver, the very idea of the thing, that steals your heart. Kink has never felt so sweet and decent.
10/26/07
Top CriticThe most poignant, well-acted and weirdly funny movie you'll see this year.
10/26/07
Top CriticBoth hilarious and poignant, with a Capraesque humanity that caught me completely off guard.
10/26/07
Top CriticEvery scene that could be played for pathos uncorks great laughs, while those that could turn crass or silly are compassionate. On every level, this is a labor of love.
10/25/07
Top CriticSweet, moving and heartfelt aren't necessarily the first words that come to mind when describing the tender tale of a young man and his sex doll, yet all three apply to Lars and the Real Girl.
10/25/07
Top CriticOften howlingly funny, and the actors are a treat.
10/22/07
Top CriticGosling's performance is a small miracle, not only because he's so completely open as a man who's essentially shut off, but because he changes and grows so imperceptibly before our eyes.
10/19/07
Top CriticIt's a premise as fanciful as Jimmy Stewart's Harvey, and yet the movie has a sweetness that manages to be pixilated and plausible at the same time.
10/19/07
Top CriticOne could be led to expect something arch and knowing, but the film is anything but that. It's an emotionally invested movie about loneliness and the lingering scars of early trauma.
10/19/07
Top CriticOnly after the movie is over do you realize what a balancing act it was, what risks it took, what rewards it contains.
10/19/07
Top CriticLars and the Real Girl is poised on the line between earnestness and farce.
10/19/07
Top CriticIt's nothing less than a miracle that the director, Craig Gillespie, and the writer, Nancy Oliver, have been able to make such an endearing, intelligent and tender comedy from a premise that, in other hands, might sustain a five-minute sketch on TV.
10/19/07
Top CriticThe central gimmick of the film remains just that -- a gimmick -- as genuine emotion gives way to shaggy-dog shtick.
10/19/07
Top CriticYou'll pardon me if I feeling like urping just a tiny bit at screenwriter Nancy Oliver's blend of pathos and heartland condescension.
10/18/07
Top CriticI didn’t connect with it.
10/15/07
Top CriticDirected with patient, low-key sensitivity, it never goes for a cheap laugh at its protagonist’s expense.
10/12/07
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