Lars (Ryan Gosling) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way, Lars leads a more reclusive existence in the family's garage, hiding in plain sight of his small, wintry hometown. Painfully shy and eccentric, Lars fails to recognize that his co-worker Margo (Kelli Garner) has a major crush on him, and he picks up on a casual reference made by his cubicle mate, who mentions a website where you can order life-sized, anatomically correct sex dolls. But instead of seeing a sex object, Lars sees in this doll a potential life partner and the only kind of social "peer" he can relate to. So Lars orders a doll, whom he names Bianca, and begins treating her with utmost gentlemanly respect — and as though she's his real-life, flesh-and-blood girlfriend. As he begins bringing Bianca with him everywhere he goes, the townspeople have to find just the right balance between supporting Lars' unusual romance and trying to introduce him to a more conventional partner. Lars and the Real Girl was written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver and directed by Mr. Woodcock's Craig Gillespie.
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Ryan Gosling | Lars Lindstrom |
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Emily Mortimer | Karin |
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Paul Schneider | Gus |
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R.D. Reid | Reverend Bock |
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Kelli Garner | Margo |
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Nancy Beatty | Mrs. Gruner |
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Doug Lennox | Mr. Hofstedtler |
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Joe Bostick | Mr. Shaw |
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Liz Gordon | Mrs. Schindler |
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Nicky Guadagni | Mrs. Petersen |
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Patricia Clarkson | Dagmar |
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Karen Robinson | Cindy |
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Maxwell McCabe-Lokos | Kurt |
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Billy Parrott | Erik |
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Sally Cahill | Deb |
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Angela Vint | Sandy |
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Liisa Repo-Martell | Laurel |
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Boyd Banks | Russell |
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Darren Hynes | Moose |
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Víctor Gómez | Hector |
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Tommy Chang | Nelson |
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Arnold Pinnock | Baxter |
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Joshua Peace | Jerry |
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Aurora Browne | Lisa |
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Alec McClure | Steve |
| Director | Craig Gillespie |
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| Writer | Nancy Oliver | |
| Producer | Sarah Aubrey, Peter Berg, Whitney Brown, John Cameron, Mark Cartier, William Horberg, Sidney Kimmel, Bruce Toll | |
| Musician | David Torn | |
| Photography | Adam Kimmel | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround |
| Subtitles | English | Spanish |
| Layers | Dual side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Apr 29, 2008 |
| Regions | 1 |