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Lars and the Real Girl

PG-13 Released Oct 12, 2007 1h 47m Comedy Drama Romance List
81% Tomatometer 140 Reviews 84% Popcornmeter 100,000+ Ratings
Extremely shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother (Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer) 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 (Patricia Clarkson), his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
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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.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Lars and the Real Girl not only wimps out but has also, at its heart, a fake doll that may be the least fake thing in it. Aug 23, 2018 Full Review Liz Hoggard London Evening Standard The film is often very funny. The acting is first-class, especially Gosling, who never patronises his character. Jan 11, 2018 Full Review Andrea Gronvall Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review It's a heartfelt film, unexpectedly making us laugh at, yet feel for, the complex, damaged main character and his hopeful real-life romance. Rated: 3/4 Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Gayle Sequeira BFI Lars and the Real Girl is a tragicomic examination of male loneliness. Jul 29, 2023 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …plays nicely with questions about how best to deal with delusion… Rated: 4/5 Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Gerardo V FUNNY BUT SINCERE COMEDY. The consensus RT put out matches it perfectly. could've been the usual 2000s lowball comedy, but instead they actually tell a story that interesting and at times sad, it reminds us that in reality, there are many people just like Lars. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/04/24 Full Review Thomas G My wife made me pick a romance for us to see - so I chose this movie. It was a beautifully done movie☺️ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/09/24 Full Review Jerod S Gosling is a talented guy - playing an incredible socially awkward guy that lives in the garage with a fake doll. It's gooey center is that his family and town love him - and he finds some sanity. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/21/24 Full Review Dinos K Brilliant movie, great performance by ryan gosling. The movie described my life Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/20/24 Full Review Angelo H Lars e a garota ideal é um filme que em sua sinopse pode parecer "simples e cômico", porém tem grande profundidade no roteiro abordando temas como saúde mental, arrependimentos e amor. Com boas atuações, uma ideia fora da caixa, que aliás, foi muito bem trabalhada, consegue emocionar e cativar conforme a história se desdobra. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/17/24 Full Review Ram L The reality of the trauma of loss isn’t dwelt upon; it’s nicely balanced out by the main guy never acting out. The weirdness of the premise is offset by the fact that we get used to it as we keep watching. The implausibility of the events as they unfold is... well, not bad enough to keep you from watching. What’s nerve-racking, though, is that you can’t ever figure what’s going on in the guy’s head. It doesn’t help that his half-smiles—more than a hundred of them from start to finish—are all exactly the same, with zero nuances. A guy who’s weird enough to internally pretend that a doll is a person... is also absolutely normal (he works in an office!) except for his interactions with the doll? People help out a disturbed guy, OK, but an entire town helps—with not one person saying anything to the effect of “he’s crazy”? Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Extremely shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother (Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer) 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 (Patricia Clarkson), his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Director
Craig Gillespie
Producer
Sarah Aubrey, John Cameron, Sidney Kimmel
Screenwriter
Nancy Oliver
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Some Sex-Related Content)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 12, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.9M
Runtime
1h 47m
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