The idea of love with a make-believe mate isn't a novel concept. (Ryan Gosling, as an awkward loner, was all about his blow-up doll in "Lars and the Real Girl.") Except the concept of "Ruby Sparks" is ...

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Ruby Sparks is one of the year's most powerful and inventive love stories -- which is to be expected considering how much passion was put into this passion project by the pair of real-life couples ...

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It’s no surprise that the trailer for Ruby Sparks inspired dread in some film journalists. Here she was again, it appeared: That perky, quirky, romantic heroine dubbed by pop-culture writer Nathan ...

Filmmakers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris talk with Kim Masters about the pressure to follow their 2006 indie sensation ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ with just the right second film. They had many starts ...

Longtime music video directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris broke into feature films with the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and six years later they’ve come across with a follow-up, an ...