Sometimes you find love where you'd least expect it. Just ask Lars (Gosling) a sweet but quirky guy who thinks he's found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized doll named Bianca. Lars is completely content with his artificial girlfriend but when he develops feelings for Margo an attractive co-worker Lars finds himself lost in a hilariously unique love triangle hoping to somehow discover the real meaning of true love. Offbeat and endearing this romantic comedy takes a fresh look at dating and relationships and dares to ask the question: What's so wrong with being happy?System Requirements:Special Features: Deleted Scene - "Bathtub" The Real Story of Lars and The Real Girl A Real Leading Lady Forced Trailers: Music Within Juno Savages Trailer Farm: Death at a Funeral BonnevilleFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 883904103738 Manufacturer No: M110373
To some, Lars and the Real Girl will play as comedy; to others, tragedy. Though Craig Gillespie (Mr. Woodcock) allows Lars Lindstrom (a mustachioed Ryan Gosling, miles away from Half Nelson) a happy ending, the road is far from smooth. This rumpled Midwesterner couldn't be more miserable. His brother, Gus (Paul Schneider, All the Real Girls), and sister-in-law, Karin (Emily Mortimer, Lovely and Amazing), fall over themselves to cheer him up, but Lars cannot be moved; he's been like that since childhood. Then a porn-addicted co-worker hips him to the lifelike Real Doll. The next thing everyone knows, Lars has a new girlfriend named Bianca. She's from Brazil, she's shy, and she uses a wheelchair. She's also made of silicon. (Because Lars is a devout Christian, hanky-panky is out of the question.) Since he's finally emerging from his shell, his doctor, Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson), advises Gus and Karin to play along with the "delusion." Soon the whole town, including Margo (Kelli Garner), who harbors a not-so-secret crush on her officemate, gets in on the action, forcing Lars to rejoin the human race or crawl deeper into psychosis. Written by Six Feet Under's Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl is built around such a preposterous premise, it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Fortunately, the actors play it straight. Gosling does his best to make Lars sympathetic, but Schneider and Mortimer, fully convincing in their concern, are the true heart and soul of this odd little film. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Customer Reviews:
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More relatable than you think...:
How do you show your friends you love them? What words do you use? What actions do you take? What objects in your life take on a meaning bigger than intended? "Lars and the Real Girl" is about how families, neighbors, and friends cope with mental illness. But to stop there would be insincere. Lars is an introvert on the far end of the scale who avoids contact with others as much as possible. However, things change when Lars tells his brother and sister in law (his neighbors) that he has met someone - a... more info
So implausible, so nice!:
I don't know much of mental illness, but the storyline truly felt completely implausible. So implausible that indeed it's hard to understand how the script, the direction and the acting could have made such a sweet and touching movie. Acting, in particular, was just superb. I felt like watching real (ok, mostly too good to be real) people really dealing with the weirdest of situations. This is one of those rare movies where you empathize with the characters and you feel like jumping into the screen to... more info
Too close to real life:
Okay, this story could not have happened in real life. Getting doctors, hospitals, cemetaries and pretty much a whole community involved in this plot would never happen no matter how well intentioned the townspeople are. That said, this is one delightful movie. It is funny, warm and thoughtful. If I had an issue with this film it is that..well, I won't go into my personal life too much, but I watched this with...Let's just say that our family has its own Bianca which made the film even more fun to watch. I... more info
I don't buy a lot of movies, but I bought this one!:
It's just so sweet, funny, sad, and sweet. (Yes, I wrote that sweet twice because it really is.) It made me feel good and I love that a community embraced a man with mental illness and they (the community) all grew because of it! It's a feel good movie that I've watched 3 times now. ...and my husband loves it too!
