SYNOPSIS

Scripted by Zoe Kazan, this centers on Calvin (Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing - as well as his romantic life. While suffering from writer's block, is told to write the woman he thinks will love him. He winds up creating Ruby and willing her into existence, "Weird Science" style. When Calvin finds Ruby (Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person. Bening plays Dano's mother and an artist who's curious about Calvin's new girlfriend, but worried about how much he hates her second husband, an eccentric hippie named Mort played by Antonio Banderas. Gould is Calvin's psychiatrist, Dr. Rosenthal, and Messina is set to play Calvin's older brother, Harry. Coogan plays Langdon Tharp, a successful novelist and self proclaimed esteemed literary God.