Lars and The Real Girl

Ryan Gosling rerpises Giovani Ribisi's character from 1999's The Other Sister, in what I thought when I rented it was a retarded screwball comedy about a guy who pretends a realistic sex doll is his girlfriend. It was retarded, so I wasn't far off on that assumption, but in no way was this funny.

Long story short, Lars is born and raised under power lines, and is a mentally ill 27-year-old man. Cutting directly to the end, so I don't have to think anymore about this gem, he pretends the doll becomes terminally ill and dies. They literally rush the doll to the hospital, have about 20 minutes of 'Lars shares those last few precious days with her' and then have a full funeral service and burial for it once its expired. At the last scene you see Lars accept the company of 'the real girl' because he's overcome his severe social anxiety of whatever the hell if it was that led him purchase a sex doll and pretend it's real, and blah blah blah blah blah. A real think-piece.

People who put together film trailers are geniuses.