MovieLine: The title character of Ruby Sparks is a 26-year-old painter from Dayton, Ohio played by Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the film's screenplay, She has bangs and wears brightly colored tights. Her first crushes were on John Lennon and Humphrey Bogart. She loves to cook, can't drive and doesn't own a computer. Her problems, as someone points out, are all of the "endearing" variety.
A mash-up of romantic fantasy, meta-fiction and magical realism, Ruby Sparks is proof that good things do come in small packages.
Ambitious and artful, it’s both a breakout and a comeback, as screenwriter/star Zoe Kazan’s first script underpins an overdue return for Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the husband-and-wife directing team behind 2006’s indie hit Little Miss Sunshine.
How many films do we have to look forward to in the remaining months of 2012? A lot.
Because movies ultimately start with a writer, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that some of the best screenwriters — as well as some terrible ones — love injecting their own craft into a screenplay.
