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Ruby Sparks
2012
· Movie
· 104 min
B
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1642
- IMDb #1720
- Google retired #1283
- Rotten Tomatoes #1894
- Metacritic #1236
- Letterboxd #1785
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2111
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2137
- Metacritic Critics #1713
- Metacritic Audience #528
- Criticker #1311
- Douban #1163
- Kinopoisk #1909
- AlloCiné #1275
- Trakt #1836
Every rating
54–90
out of 100
A young novelist struggling with writer's block creates a character named Ruby Sparks, his ideal woman. To his shock, she miraculously appears in his apartment as a real person, believing herself to be his girlfriend. He discovers he can control her every action and emotion by typing on his typewriter, a power that raises complex questions about love and creation.
Details
- Directors
- Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
- Writer
- Zoe Kazan
- Released
- 25 July 2012
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $9.4M
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Awards
1 win & 11 nominations total
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