Lars and the Real Girl (2007) on Netflix
Lars Lindstrom, shy and withdrawn, lives in the garage behind the house his brother Gus and sister-in-law Karin share. He brings home Bianca, a life-size doll he treats as his girlfriend.
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- Rotten Tomatoes81%
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Plot summary
Lars Lindstrom keeps to the converted garage behind the house his older brother Gus and Gus's wife Karin share in a small town. His mother died giving birth to him, and touching other people is hard for him; Karin's attempts to draw him out and the friendliness of a co-worker named Margo come to little. One evening Lars tells Gus and Karin that he has met a woman online, Bianca, a wheelchair-using missionary of Brazilian and Danish descent. What arrives is a life-size doll, and Lars treats her as a person. Alarmed, Gus and Karin take Bianca to Dagmar Berman, the town doctor, who also works as a psychologist, and she urges Lars to bring Bianca back for weekly treatments. Lars introduces Bianca around town as his girlfriend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
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- While researching "weird websites" for an article, screenwriter Nancy Oliver found RealDoll.com, the inspiration for her script; she wrote it in 2002, and it was the third-ranked screenplay in The Black List in 2005.
- In 2021, members of the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America, East voted the film's screenplay 96th in the WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century.
- Two crew members carry unusual credits on this film: Rosalie MacKintosh is listed as "Bianca wrangler" and Karly Bowen as "assistant Bianca wrangler".
- It opened on seven screens in New York City and Los Angeles and earned $90,418 on its opening weekend, later expanding to 321 theaters and remaining in release for 147 days, for a worldwide total of $11,293,663.
