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Lars and the Real Girl

2007 · 107 min

A gentle, quietly sad story that slowly warms into something hopeful, treating its odd premise with tenderness and never mocking its lonely hero.

Directed by
Craig Gillespie
Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
The search for true love begins outside the box.
Overview
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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Directed by
Craig Gillespie
Genres
Drama, Romance
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • grief
  • isolation
  • healing
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism7
Romance4
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Craig Gillespie
Written by
Nancy Oliver
Starring
Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, R.D. Reid, Kelli Garner, Nancy Beatty, Doug Lennox, Joe Bostick
Music
David Torn
Cinematography
Adam Kimmel
Runtime
107 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Spanish

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