Ruby Sparks is a new project for spouse-tandem Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) about an awful mess of a young novelist whose dead end had manifested a living and breathing character. Meet Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood), our struggling young writer who magically manifests her character, Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan, Me and Orson Welles) to life. Yes, pretty much alive--taking his dog take a leak outside, cook eggs and speak fluent French.
On a quest to clear the impossible, he seeks help of brother Harry (Chris Messina, Celeste and Jesse Forever) who while seemingly is an obnoxious elder brother, knows the right stuff to do. Calvin decides that his character is in the best shape, so why bother changing her (by writing more details about herself)? As Ruby personifies, Calvin finds changes that are testament to his character's humanity. As a result, Calvin tries to write more details about Ruby, triggering changes that is supposedly to mold Ruby in the perfect state Calvin could think of.
It's easy to expect something from husband-wife filmmakers Dayton-Faris; the triumph of Little Miss Sunshine will likely to support this notion. They know the genre well enough and how to shrewdly shift from fun to profound. Zoe Kazan (star and screenwriter) holds the same knowledge as she plots the script for Ruby Sparks. Kazan knows how to easily fare in different intentions, emotions and responses in many sly ways that anyone will appreciate. Kazan, like the character she plays, is fun. And it vividly translates with the story.
If a bigger credit is existent, Kazan is a well worth candidate for that. She writes entirely competent and at the same time contagious, and she plays as Ruby Sparks with the aforementioned descriptions very possible be applied. While Dano, Messina and Antonio Banderas (playing new-beau of Calvin's mother) are all magnificent in their own merits, there's little to them in comparison with Kazan's sparks. She's pure magic trapped inside a living and breathing energetic body. Of course, there will be questions left hanging, but does anyone really care?
Of which premise may be impossible to be turned into something prolific and intelligent and glorious, Ruby Sparks is an incredible movie. And there's no miracles in need. Just pure magic.
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