Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is still living off the
success of his first novel which was published when he was still in his teens.
Ten years on he is struggling to write despite having no friends to distract
him. In an attempt to help him open up his shrink (Elliot Gould) tells him to
write a few pages about whatever comes to mind. After waking from a recurring
dream about an enchanting woman, Calvin finds that he can’t stop writing. His
writing comes to a halt though one morning when he wakes up to find his
literary creation Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan) is alive and in his kitchen making
eggs. Has he gone insane or has his character really jumped off the page and
into his life?
The trailer for Ruby
Sparks was excellent and I was really looking forward to the film. It had
the sort of buzz that accompanied Little
Miss Sunshine and looked to be a quirky and funny indie comedy of the sort
that I’m very fond of. Now I’ve seen the film I can attest that the trailer is
even better that I thought as it trails a film which doesn’t quite live up to
the advert and certainly isn’t as funny as advertised.
