The film ‘Ruby Sparks’ starts with a girl whose face cannot be seen clearly in orange lighting.
She is asking for her shoe with a beautiful smile on her lips, Suddenly his dream is interrupted by
the ringing of an alarm and he nervously wakes up. Then starts the usual daily routine of the Calvin
Weir-Fields; he goes on a walk with Scotty, his dog, eats breakfast, and gets to writing. Calvin
Weir-fields is a young passionate writer who is at the top of the list of New York Times bestsellers,
and found success early in his career. Today, when he sat before his old manual
typewriter, he just continuously stared at a blank paper; unable to come up with an idea for his new
book. Later, he met up with Harry, his brother at the gym where Calvin told Harry about his dream,
Harry asks about Calvin’s upcoming work but Calvin was unable to tell, that his both love and work
life are messed up. But the question here is WHY? Which he was not able to understand himself.
Now, he is in a session with his therapist Dr. Rosenthal, where he tries to explain why he is
not able to write recently. The doctor reminds his goal of getting Scotty. That goal was to meet new
people which was unsuccessful because whenever people try to pet Scotty, he gets scared. The
session ends up with the therapist giving Calvin an assignment in which he has to write a person,
who still likes Scotty despite seeing him all slobbery. Later that day, Calvin had a show with
Langdon Tharp as the best young author. There he also attended a party where a girl named Mabel,
gave him her number which he reluctantly took. That night when he slept, he again dreamed about
that beautiful girl. In the dream, he met her at the park where she commented that Scotty was cute,
although he peed like a girl. She asks to draw Scotty, to which he agrees. Calvin got to know
that she is an artist and when he got up to go, she handover the sketch of Scotty to him which
he admitted was beautiful. Whereas she admitted that in actuality his dog is beautiful and she
likes him the way he is. Hearing this Calvin was reminded of what his doctor said and get shocked,
he woke up with a brilliant idea in his mind about his new work. He rushed to his typewriter
and started manufacturing one more product of his imagination, which included his own
love life and ideal women for himself. Then for the next few days, he has been
continuously working on his new novel. He got stuck to writing as if he was there in the book
and was enjoying spending time with his ideal woman. Some days later, he excitedly visits
his doctor who was glad, that Calvin found something that inspires him but here Calvin
dropped the actual bomb. As he admitted that this girl on which he was writing a book, was not his
inspiration, she was his LOVE. He explained how he wasn’t able to eat and sleep only to write
about her. Then, the doctor asked him about that girl; to which Calvin told him her name:
Ruby Sparks. She was 26 years old and brought up in Dayton, Ohio. She is a complicated person,
which is a quality that Calvin likes about her the most. She is now looking forward to something new
in her life. Following that day, Calvin spent the evening with Harry and his wife at Calvin’s house.
Unfortunately, he found a waxing razor in his washroom, and at the same time,
Harry and Susie found the undergarments of a girl on a sofa and in the drawer, to which he
justified, that Scotty might have dragged them from the neighbor's dustbin. Calvin was shocked
to see these all things in his own house. When night falls, Calvin sits and writes a
beautiful scene imagining himself and Ruby. They are having a meal and Ruby claims Calvin is not so
her type, as she likes assertive men and Calvin is stubborn. A few moments later, Calvin asks,
if that is what you are looking for in men? And here Ruby surprises Calvin with the confession,
that Calvin is the one she has been looking for in her life. They end up in a swimming
pool having a romantic conversation as Ruby promises to love him forever and ever.
The next morning, Calvin woke up to a phone call and realizes he dozed off while writing. He was
rushing out of the house to meet his friend, but he froze the moment he realized that RUBY SPARKS;
the girl of his dreams and the character of his imagination is standing in front of him,
in his kitchen telling him, she missed him. He got all confused and nervous collapsing on the floor,
thinking that she was his hallucination. He was going nuts thinking that he is seeing the girl
of his fantasy in his house, and now at this stage he will be admitted to the mental hospital. He ran
upstairs and calmed himself, saying that it might only be a dream and soon will wake up from it.
When he saw her again; Calvin hid under the table and called Harry; when he explained this unreal
situation to him, Harry thought Calvin was out of his mind, speaking nonsense and suggests Calvin to
go meet a friend. Calvin gathered all the courage he had and went downstairs; Calvin tried his best
to get out alone; unfortunately, he ended up with Ruby in the car. Calvin said he is going to meet a
friend at Café Figaro, as he was trying to escape from her, still unable to accept this incident.
He went to the café and met Mabel. While having a chat with Mabel, Ruby appears in the café and
claims herself to be Calvin’s girlfriend. On the other hand, Calvin was unable to believe
that not only he, but Mabel and other people could see the character of his imagination:
Ruby Sparks. Ruby runs away from there as Calvin was behaving weirdly, Calvin chases her and they
end up against the wall kissing each other, as Calvin explains to Ruby that it is taking a
little time for him to process this all. Finally, Calvin accepted that his ideal woman: Ruby Sparks
has leaped from a page into a reality. Afterward, Calvin seems to enjoy life to
its fullest with Ruby; watching a movie, going to clubs, and gaming. Calvin was happiest with her,
but little did Ruby not know that she is only a fictional character, totally in the control of
Calvin. Days later, Calvin meets Harry and tries to explain that the girl he made up is here and
is real; even though he cannot understand why and how she turned into reality. Whereas Harry still
argued that he is only seeing things. When Harry still didn’t get convinced, Calvin took him to the
house and made Harry meet Ruby; and when Harry saw the fictional character in front of him;
his eyes were dropping out. Harry quickly took Calvin to the side and argued that it might be one
of his fans pretending to be Ruby, as she might have read the book you are writing, but Calvin
disagreed saying you were the only one who read that. Harry came up with an idea to check whether
she is real or unreal: they wrote something on the typewriter and noticed, that she exactly
behaved the same way as what they have written. By seeing this all Harry finally believed Calvin,
and then they three had a wonderful dinner together. Harry was surprised and somewhere
claimed Calvin to be lucky, as he could control Ruby the way he wants, but Calvin claims to never
write ever again to her. Hence, their happy time continued until Calvin gets a call from his mom,
who wants to meet Ruby and invites them over to their place which is in Big Sur. Unfortunately,
Calvin refuses to come saying they had already planned; Ruby got upset with him. But Calvin can't
see her upset so he surprises her in the morning by agreeing to go to Big Sur. Ruby had a wonderful
time with Calvin's mother, Mort, Harry and Susie; they swam played games and had delicious dinner.
She also enjoyed traveling with Calvin but as expected it was not all the same for Calvin;
although he played games but spent most of his time reading a novel. Upon their return,
she made Calvin realize that he was wrong when His mother and Mort tried so hard, and he still
was busy reading a book; she also claimed to feel lonely. Hearing this Calvin quickly
apologized to her, and Ruby decides to stay some nights at her apartment and take art classes.
Life continued, but it was not all same as before for Calvin; as it was terrible for him when Ruby
stayed at her apartment for the night. When he told this to Ruby she claimed it is important
to have some space in a relationship. She even started spending more time with her new class
members than Calvin. Calvin missed Ruby miserably, so he decided to once write to her and now he made
Ruby miss him. But gradually it got worst as Ruby didn’t leave him for a second and misses him even
when he is right in front of her. Calvin got heavy-hearted and now wrote that Ruby is happy;
after this Ruby was always happy, laughing like a maniac without any reason. So, he decided to
write that Ruby is all herself neither happy nor sad. When Calvin planned to attend Langdon's party
at night as Ruby always insisted, that he should make plans, she suddenly changed her mind and they
were on the verge of arguing. Thankfully, Ruby understood and they attended the party. They both
were good at the party until Calvin left Ruby all alone. On one side Langdon had a bad eye on Ruby,
while on the other side Calvin met his ex Lila. They got into a little argument which ended with
Lila, saying that Calvin could only stay with himself and no one else. Afterward, when Calvin
was looking for Ruby, he saw her half-clothed standing at the edge of the swimming pool along
with Langdon inside the pool. He felt furious and rushed home with Ruby. Entering the house
they both got into a huge argument, regarding what Ruby was doing half-naked in a middle of a party;
as Calvin claimed she was 'his' girlfriend; so she should act that way not like a slut. The argument
seemed to be heated up as Ruby shouts that now she won't let him decide what she will do.
Calvin claims to make her do anything and he goes to the typewriter and writes that she can’t leave.
The same happened as when she was going to leave, she wasn't able to. Ruby was going mad as she
didn't understand why she wasn’t able to leave and then came the time; Calvin told her the truth that
she is not real, he made her up. He explained how he had her dream, he wrote a book about her
and then one day she was living in his house. Ruby was in shock, trying to digest the truth.
She still didn't seem to believe him, so he wrote certain things on the typewriter and she did the
same in front of him, she exactly uttered the same word he wrote and all this made her realize that
she is just a CHARACTER OF HIS IMAGINATION! Later, she locks herself in the room because
she felt shattered. Seeing this, Calvin made a decision that was against HIS feelings and
was better for HER life. Calvin wrote to release Ruby from her past as soon as she
will leave his house and she will no longer be his creation. For the sake of his love
and Ruby's life, he let her BE FREE! As expected, the next morning Ruby left
his house and life leaving him behind with a broken heart and her countless memories.
Since Ruby left Calvin he wasn’t in his right state and wasn’t able to write. Harry insisted
and Calvin composed a new novel, called ‘His girlfriend’ on Ruby’s and his love story;
through which he was able to deliver his unspoken words and feelings towards her. But
he did all this with the hope that she won't read it and won't try to reapproach Calvin.
The book was a great success and was liked by millions of people including his therapist.
At the end of this movie, but the start of Calvin and Ruby's real love life, without anything being
unreal was that: they both again met in a park, as they met in his dream previously for the
first time. Scotty ran towards her as she lay on the grass just like a flower, while Calvin was
extremely happy to meet the love of his life once again, with 'THEIR' love book in Ruby's hand…….
Hence, their real love story begins with this beautiful ending.