Lars and the Real Girl: Trailer & Poster

While owners of sex shops might hope for a surge of traffic in terms of blow-up doll purchases, I’m hoping that this film gets the attention that it deserves during the busy fall season. IONCINEMA.com will be on hand at the film's premiere in Toronto this year.

The long awaited trailer (and one sheet) for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment/MGM’s Lars And The Real Girl has finally arrived – a charming trailer that goes from point A to point B without revealing its insides but making the obvious obvious: the dude is keeping company with an inflatable doll!

Directed by newcomer Craig Gillespie and written by Six Feet Under’s Nancy Oliver this stars a Ryan Gosling in one of those roles that might tug at the heart in the not so over sentimental manner. If you want to view the trailer click on the poster image below.  

This sees Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life.  After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him.  He introduces Bianca to his Brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and his wife Karen (Emily Mortimer) and they are stunned.  They don’t know what to say to Lars or Bianca – because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson) who explains this is a delusion he’s created – for what reason she doesn’t yet know but they should all go along with it.  What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.