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Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks is a 2012 American romantic comedy film written by Zoe Kazan and directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. It stars Paul Dano as an anxious novelist whose fictional character, Ruby Sparks, played by Kazan, comes to life, and his struggles to reconcile his idealized vision of her with her increasing independence.

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Box office
$9.4 million
Cinematography
Matthew Libatique
Country
United States
Directed by
Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris
Distributed by
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Edited by
Pamela Martin

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Ruby Sparks

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Ruby Sparks

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related to Writing · 17
Ruby Sparks → Cairo, Calvin, Dano, During, From, Groundhog Day, Kazan, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, On, Paul Dano, Pygmalion, Rose, She, The, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen's The Purple, Zoe Kazan
related to Plot · 14
Ruby Sparks → After, Believing Calvin, Calvin, Calvin Weir-Fields, Calvin's, Harry, He, His, Mabel, Ruby, Ruby's, Scotty, Susie, The
related to Critical response · 13
Ruby Sparks → At, Chris Pandolfi, Cleverly, I've, It's, On, On Metacritic, Online, Rotten Tomatoes, Stephen Holden, The, The New York Times, Theater Near You
Starring · 7
Ruby Sparks → Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Chris Messina, Elliott Gould, Paul Dano, Steve Coogan, Zoe Kazan
Produced by · 2
Ruby Sparks → Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
related to Box office · 2
Ruby Sparks → Canada, The
Box office · 1
Ruby Sparks → $9.4 million
Cinematography · 1
Ruby Sparks → Matthew Libatique
Country · 1
Ruby Sparks → United States
Directed by · 1
Ruby Sparks → Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris

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ruby calvin kazan sparks film write written book woman harry character writing faris dano writes novelist zoe dayton paul los

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Ruby SparksBox office$9.4 million1.00infobox
Ruby SparksCinematographyMatthew Libatique1.00infobox
Ruby SparksCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Ruby SparksDirected byJonathan Dayton Valerie Faris1.00infobox
Ruby SparksDistributed byFox Searchlight Pictures1.00infobox
Ruby SparksEdited byPamela Martin1.00infobox
Ruby SparksLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Ruby SparksMusic byNick Urata1.00infobox
Ruby SparksProduced byAlbert Berger1.00infobox
Ruby SparksProduced byRon Yerxa1.00infobox
Ruby SparksProduction companyBona Fide Productions1.00infobox
Ruby SparksRelease dateJuly 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)1.00infobox
Ruby SparksRunning time104 minutes1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringPaul Dano1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringZoe Kazan1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringAntonio Banderas1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringAnnette Bening1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringSteve Coogan1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringElliott Gould1.00infobox
Ruby SparksStarringChris Messina1.00infobox
Ruby SparksWritten byZoe Kazan1.00infobox
Ruby Sparksis a2012 American romantic comedy film written by Zoe Kazan and directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris0.90text

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