Ruby Sparks

We watched Ruby Sparks last night.Lovely movie. It's the story of Calvin, a young writer, who's had one big novel 10 years ago, and nothing much since. He lives alone with his dog, Scotty, and doesn't really have many friends, apart from his brother and his therapist. It would seem the sales of his book are still enabling him to live well, in a fancy enough house overlooking LA. But he's lonely and he's having trouble writing. Until his therapist tells him to write a page about a dream he had about a beautiful girl. A few days later, he finds that the girl of his dreams is living with him. She has materialised out of the written page, and she's perfect. And she's real. Other people can see her too. She's quirky, beautiful, funny. She's got feelings. And she loves him. But is that enough for him? And for her?
He finds that if he writes about her, what he writes becomes real, so he can tweak her. Will he create a monster, or will he be generous enough to let her live her own life?
The story becomes darker than I had expected. But it's a lovely girly movie all the same.
And with a few good actors: The guy that did the older brother in Little Miss Sunshine (the brother that wouldn't talk, and who wanted to become a pilot, He looks as geeky now as he did then). Annette Benning. Antonio Banderas. And Zoe Kazan, who plays Ruby, is Elia Kazan's grand-daughter! And she wrote the screenplay for the movie! And according to Wikipedia, she's been dating Paul Dano, who plays Calvin, for 5 years.