This eccentric 2007 character study stars two performers whose career trajectories have risen substantially since this low-budget movie was made: Ryan Gosling and The Newsroom star Emily Mortimer. He pays Lars, a meek man so introverted that he finds solace, even love and acceptance, in the quiet company of a made-to-order life-size “doll.” She plays the “real girl” of the title, in one of the cinema’s strangest (but not mocking) romantic triangles.