Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/12/2007(USA
Release Date: 04/15/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Lars (
Ryan Gosling) and
Gus (
Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to
Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While
Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (
Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way,
Lars leads a more reclusive existence in the family's garage, hiding in plain sight of his small, wintry hometown. Painfully shy and eccentric,
Lars fails to recognize that his co-worker
Margo (
Kelli Garner) has a major crush on him, and he picks up on a casual reference made by his cubicle mate, who mentions a website where you can order life-sized, anatomically correct sex dolls. But instead of seeing a sex object,
Lars sees in this doll a potential life partner and the only kind of social "peer" he can relate to. So
Lars orders a doll, whom he names
Bianca, and begins treating her with utmost gentlemanly respect -- and as though she's his real-life, flesh-and-blood girlfriend. As he begins bringing
Bianca with him everywhere he goes, the townspeople have to find just the right balance between supporting
Lars' unusual romance and trying to introduce him to a more conventional partner.
Lars and the Real Girl was written by
Six Feet Under scribe
Nancy Oliver and directed by
Mr. Woodcock's
Craig Gillespie.
~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
;)
