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Ruby Sparks
2012 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Calvin 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. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, 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.
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One of the problems is that it seems to have created a trope of "young genius author creates a single amazing work and is troubled" which is used in some dire films.
Ruby Sparks, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, Chasing Holden, there's a bunch of them and they suck.
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/sidney-hall-review-sundance-logan-lerman-1201773905/
"Ruby Sparks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/
worth mentioning "The Campaign" and "Paranorman"