Watch this when
Ruby Sparks
You can't love someone you're still writing. ✍️
Who it's for
Ruby Sparks turns idealization into a literal premise: Calvin gets the woman he imagined, then finds he cannot love someone he has authored.
Infatuated, anxious→Clear-eyed, humble
Feelings it meets
What it is
A lonely, blocked novelist writes about his dream woman, Ruby, and she turns up in his life, real and in love with him. When she starts becoming her own person, he discovers he can rewrite her with his typewriter.
Where to find it
Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch. Available to rent or buy on major digital stores.
Before you start
Heads up: Disturbing psychological control.
Age: R (language, including some sexual references, and some drug use); Common Sense: 16+
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 197
