“Zoe Kazan’s ‘Mind-Eff’ of an Indie Romance”

I know there’s this itty bitty movie having something to do with bats later this week, but make sure you create time to support indie movies like this one: Ruby Sparks. THR has a nice feature on the movie’s screenwriter and star Zoe Kazan:

It’s hard to make a movie, much less a good one, and in an age of billion dollar superhero franchises and Comic-Con blowouts, putting together a successful indie flick — and actually have it get seen by an audience — should be nearly impossible. But in what was one of the very many meta, self-actualizing aspects of the project, once Ruby Sparks was written, it seemed to magically spring to life.

The brainchild of actress and playwright Zoe Kazan, the film tells the story of a frustrated writer who is visited by a girl named Ruby in his dreams, begins to write a book about her, and, after falling in love with the character, finds her actually appear, alive in his own house. The pair become a real-life couple, but issues of free will and secrecy begin to plague the relationship: Is she an actual person? Can and should he play God, since he can control her life by continuing to write the story?

Here is the movie’s trailer:

http://static.movieclips.com/embedplayer.swf?shortid=wCRKq

A featurette on the movie:

For more of the article, go here.