Lars and the Real Girl

[jsteinhauer]

It was not what I expected from the description, and it was a bit slow. I expected more of a teeny bopper type comedy rather than a dark adult comedy. It was pretty good. The raves were about the screenplay and the acting of Ryan Gosling, but I think Emily Mortimer and Paul Schneider were simply rock solid in portraying how a good and caring couple would react to the situation and interact with each other. Patricial Clarkson was great, too, but Mortimer and Schneider made the story seem real. The snow in the yard was fake. Early on, you could see Emily Mortimer kick up some of the toilet-paper like stuff while running across the yard. Another example of a Canadian movie with a needless U.S. setting. I really can't see this going over in Wisconsin, where the movie was set, but perhaps a remote town in northern Ontario would have worked.