Lars and the Real Girl* (2007) is a comedy drama starring Ryan Gosling. The film centers on Lars Lindstrom, a socially isolated man who forms a delusional relationship with a life sized sex doll Lars and the Real Girl' (2007) Ryan Gosling stars as a quiet odd extremely shy man Lars Lindstorm, who has an unusual relationship with a plastic anatomically correct doll for a "girlfriend". Lars and the Real Girl (2007) IMDb Social Anxiety in Movies: Lars and the Real Girl T.Z. Barry Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) directs Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, and Patricia Clarkson in this dramedy, about a man who falls in love with a sex doll. Stream 'Lars No, Ryan Gosling Isn't Too Old To Play Ken in Barbie (He Looks Perfect)