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Lars And The Real Girl (DVD)

Ryan Gosling (actor), Patricia Clarkson (actor) and Craig Gillespie (director)
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Empire, 04/01/2008, p.56, 4 stars out of 5 -- "The supporting cast, especially the bubbly Mortimer, are all excellent..."

Sight and Sound, 04/01/2008, p.66, "[A] smart, thoughtful tale about mental illness....Ryan Gosling's pitch-perfect performance is instrumental..."

Total Film, 04/01/2008, p.58, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Gosling] shows new qualities here and carries his simple Lars convincingly....He takes hard-to-believe and makes it believable..."

Uncut, 03/07/2008, p.122, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a number of warm, open performances....Gosling shines..."

Los Angeles Times, 10/12/2007, "[T]his is a film whose daring and delicate blend of apparent irreconcilables will sweep you off your feet if you're not too careful."

Entertainment Weekly, 11/01/2007, p.110-111, "[Gosling] finally has a movie that does full justice to his talents....[His portrayal] is a marvel, but so is the acting of Mortimer and Schneider..."

Title Note

Theatrical Release: October 12, 2007:

Release Note

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround - French, Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scene ("Bathtub")
Behind the Scenes - "The Real Story of LARS AND THE REAL GIRL"
Featurettes - "A Real Leading Lady"
Trailers - Forced Trailers - 1. MUSIC WITHIN
2. JUNO
3. SAVAGES
- Trailer Farm - 1.DEATH AT A FUNERAL
2. BONNEVILLE

Product Notes

As the title character, Ryan Gosling is a strange but likeable young man who manages to keep down a job but keeps mostly to himself. He only leaves the garage where he lives when his older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and loving sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer) drag him to their house next door for dinner. Lars doesn't take well to questioning, so the disturbing level of his isolation is never openly discussed. It's only when he announces he has a girlfriend in the form of an anatomically correct doll he purchased via the Internet that everyone must admit his precarious mental state. No one quite knows how to help Lars, so they play along, careful not to do anything that might push him or Bianca (his plastic fiancée) over the edge. The results are touching efforts on the part of all those who love him to help Lars through what his psychologist (Patricia Clarkson) assures them may be only a stage. Kelli Garner shines as Margo, the real, live girl who Lars seems incapable of seeing. Despite being ignored, Margo hangs in there, hopeful Lars will come around to sanity and to her.

Craig Gillespie's LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a sweet love story and a film which deals with mental illness in surprisingly subtle ways. With a formula that could easily have manipulated for cheap laughs, the film achieves quirky humor in parts but mostly touching observations about the nature of delusions themselves. The film's talented cast gathers around Lars, a sensitive character who the film respects and who Gosling (THE NOTEBOOK, HALF NELSON) brings fully to life.

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4 out of 5 stars Yellow flowers, April 25, 2008
By Anne
Watching Ryan Gosling falling in love with a life-sized doll was probably one of the best parts of this film. The topic of this movie is intensely moving and funny too! Nice.

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