this is a must see...
"Prepared to be shocked by "Lars and the Real Girl," simply because it isn't shocking at all. Instead, Craig Gillespie's comedy, written by Nancy Oliver (TV's "Six Feet Under"), is almost impossibly sweet, a tale of love and kindness that's funny without being snarky. And when's the last time you said that about a movie that depicts a relationship between a man and a life-size doll?
Lars (Ryan Gosling, complete with a sad little mustache) is an emotionally shutdown young man in a small Midwestern town, living in the garage apartment behind the house formerly owned by his late parents.
His brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and pregnant sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer), who live in the house, perpetually worry about his isolation and loneliness, so they're thrilled when he announces that a woman friend is coming to visit. She is Bianca — tall, slender, vaguely resembling a waxworks Angelina Jolie and entirely inanimate. Gus and Karin, being polite Midwesterners, greet her with a stunned courtesy, and Karin even makes uncomfortable small talk with her when the two of them are left alone. It seems, to this loving sister-in-law, the right thing to do.
There's a gentleness to the performances that's irresistible: Gosling, who seems to almost imperceptibly relax when he's near Bianca, makes us understand in few words the town's affection for Lars.
Movies can make what's not real seem real, and "Lars and the Real Girl" takes that magic a step further — not through trickery or technology, but through the love in a young man's eyes."
~The Seattle Times
