The amusing but ultimately tepid comedy Ruby Sparks has a provocative and potentially harrowing premise. At times, the ingenuity and insight of screenwriter and star Zoe Kazan is impressive, even ...

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 ...

“Ruby Sparks” is the great romantic gem of the summer, a diamond in the rough that bends genres, tickles the fancy and trips up expectations. Writer and co-star Zoe Kazan, working with the directors ...

Written by actress Zoe Kazan for her and her boyfriend, Paul Dano, Ruby Sparks is a fairly engaging parable about the crap men project on their wives and girlfriends, the sort of controlling fantasies ...

“She doesn’t know I wrote her,” says novelist Calvin (Paul Dano) to his brother Harry (Chris Messina), desperation in his voice. Calvin, a pale slip of a man who’s been fighting writer’s block, has a ...

The term Manic Pixie Dream Girl, coined in 2005 by AV Club film critic Nathan Rabin, refers to a female character whose bubbly sensibility, behaviors and attitudes push the young male lead toward a ...

Not unlike the blockbuster reboot craze crowding movie theaters lately, Indiewood’s Ruby Sparks goes for that deja vu do-over—in this case, with a modernized take on Greek mythology’s enduring ...

More stories by Nigel M. It was only a matter of time before Zoe Kazan penned her first screenplay. The actress, best known for her supporting turns in “Revolutionary Road” and “Meek’s Cutoff,” is the ...

How to follow the success of Little Miss Sunshine? Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton finally settled on a film that elides life and art: just the thing for a husband-and-wife team As ...

Zoe Kazan knows a little something about creative types. Her mother, Robin Swicord, cowrote the screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Her father, Nicholas Kazan, authored the script for ...