Lars and the Real Girl

4.00
    Lars and the Real Girl
    2007

    Synopsis

    Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

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    Cast

    • Ryan GoslingLars Lindstrom
    • Emily MortimerKarin
    • Paul SchneiderGus
    • R.D. ReidReverand Bock
    • Kelli GarnerMargo
    • Nancy BeattyMrs. Gruner
    • Doug LennoxMr. Hofstedter
    • Joe BostickMr. Shaw
    • Liz GordonMrs. Schindler
    • Nicky GuadagniMrs. Petersen

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Wall Street Journal

      It'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.
    • 91

      Christian Science Monitor

      The movie is an idyllic view of life as it ought to be, rather than the way it is.
    • 88

      USA Today

      At a time when romantic comedies seem to have exhausted unique ideas, along comes Lars, an original, amusing and heartfelt tale sharply written by Nancy Oliver (Six Feet Under).
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A deep, sweet-hearted study not only of one lonely character but also of the community that supports him.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      While "quirky" is a good descriptor for the production, Lars and the Real Girl isn't so bizarre that mainstream movie goers will reject it. This is an offbeat independent production that could become one of those big little fall surprises.
    • 70

      Variety

      Helmer Craig Gillespie's sweetly off-kilter film plays like a Coen brothers riff on Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales, defying its lurid premise with a gentle comic drama grounded in reality.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      Really, I think we put up with Lars at all only because Gosling has such an affinity for the wounded boy birds he tends to play that it's easy to watch him do his thing.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Gosling is the film's salvation: He really is good enough to make this underwritten fantasy feel as though it amounts to something. But it doesn't.

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