Limited Opening 7/25/12
Viewed at Crossroads Theater Monday 9/17/12 (by myself)
RT Critics 80 Audience 82
Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Fox Searchlight
Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan
This movie sparkled. It was clever and totally believable, even though its premise was that of a magical fantasy. Calvin Weir-Fields is Mr. Average American young man, nothing spectacular to look at (sorry Paul), shy, a writer living in LA whose first (and only, so far) novel was a huge, HUGE hit. Now he's finally got a new idea, one that came from dreams he has of a girls that he considers perfect for him, and he begins to write on an old typewriter. And magically, this dream girl becomes real and enters his life.
He has a brother who, although married and with a baby, is always around to help and lend advice. Hmmm. I love the scenes that include his funky mother and step-father (played by Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas) who live in extremely cool digs in Big Sur. Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the screenplay, is Dano's real-life girlfriend and their chemistry is huge and really impacts the film.
It was a blast. I'd go see it again. There's a great NYT article here.
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