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	remove undo remove undo add (500) Days of Summer Zooey Deschanel portrays a deconstructed Manic Pixie Dream Girl who doesn't believe in love at first sight.
	remove undo remove undo add Almost Famous On an assignment from Rolling Stone, fifteen-year-old William Miller follows the up-and-coming rock band Stillwater on tour. He learns it's almost impossible to be objective about people you're beginning to idolize.
	remove undo remove undo add Annie Hall One of the proto-magic pixie dream girls, Diane Keaton played the titular shiksa-goddess to uber-neurotic Woody Allen.
	remove undo remove undo add Arthur A girl who aspires to become an author of silly children's books? A girl whose favorite food is off-brand Spaghetti-O's? Well, of course she's a Manic Pixie Dream Girl!
	remove undo remove undo add Bandslam Bandslam follows Will Burton, an avid fan of David Bowie who moves to a new town (Lodi, New Jersey) and a new school. Will is forced to balance his interest in reclusive Sa5m and school hottie Charlotte Barnes while managing Charlotte's Band and its entry to the Bandslam competition.
	remove undo remove undo add Beginners Oliver (McGregor) is a man trying to deal with the revelations that his 75 year old father, Hal (Plummer), is not only terminally ill, but also gay.
	remove undo remove undo add Being Flynn A depressed young man's world is thrown into turmoil when his father shows up at the homeless shelter he works at.
	remove undo remove undo add Breakfast at Tiffany's Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is an early example from the 60s
	remove undo remove undo add Bringing up Baby The well-ordered life of paleontologist David Huxley is disrupted by the arrival of an unconventional woman (and her leopard).
	remove undo remove undo add Elf Zooey Deschanel playing a quirky, odd, eccentric, sarcastic love interest? Color me shocked!
	remove undo remove undo add Elizabethtown Kirsten Dunst's character in this film was Rabin's inspiration to coin the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl".
	remove undo remove undo add Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Kate Winslet's character epitomises the manic pixie dream girl with her excessive quirkiness to counter Jim Carrey's awkward and depressed Joel.
	remove undo remove undo add Failure to Launch A woman who's job is to make men fall in love with her so that they'll move out of their parents home faces her toughest case yet when she inadvertently falls for him.
	remove undo remove undo add Garden State Natalie Portman is a tumbling ball of endless quirk as the romantic rescuer of the dead-inside lead character played by Zach Braff.
	remove undo remove undo add Gigantic Zooey Dechanel plays a girl named "Happy", a slightly more perpetually bummed out slant on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
	remove undo remove undo add HappyThankYouMorePlease Mississippi, played by Kate Mara, is named after her home state, and has moved to New York to pursue a singing career. And she agrees to move in with a man she just met for a span of three days. Did I mention her name is Mississippi?
	remove undo remove undo add Heathers Winona Ryder as Veronica was pretty much the archetype for the 90's Pixie Girl.
	remove undo remove undo add Hot Tub Time Machine Lizzy Caplan's rock journalist character exudes every quality of this cliche, albeit with a specifically '80s bent.
	remove undo remove undo add Humboldt County
	remove undo remove undo add Irma la Douce
	remove undo remove undo add Juno Seemingly uncaring of the fact she is pregnant, Ellen Page shows an even more awkward Michael Cera the meaning of true love. Honest to blog.
	remove undo remove undo add My Sassy Girl A college boy finds himself thrown together with a wild, unpredictible young woman. Drawn to her he finds himself put into intense situations as she wreaks havoc upon his life.
	remove undo remove undo add My Week with Marilyn A British drama based on true events. Following his graduation from University, Colin Clark gets a job on the production staff for 'The Prince and the Showgirl', starring blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. He is immediately infatuated with the starlet, and the feelings seem mutual.
	remove undo remove undo add Overdrawn at the Memory Bank Aram Fingal gets caught watching movies at his futuristic workplace and gets sent to "rehabilitation", which involves his mind being transplanted into a baboon for a day. A mix-up at the lab occurs, and leads Aram to be trapped in his own version of "Casablanca".
	remove undo remove undo add Remember Me Ally, as played by Emilie De Ravin, is the romantic foil to Robert Pattinson's brooding character. Although she has her demons, her taste in music, her eccentricities and the fact that she specifically eats dessert before her dinner entrée solidifies her status as a "Manic Pixie Dream Girl".
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	remove undo remove undo add Ruby Sparks A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.
	remove undo remove undo add Safety Not Guaranteed Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
	remove undo remove undo add Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Ramona Flowers, the literal girl of Scott Pilgrim's dreams.
	remove undo remove undo add Seeking a Friend for the End of the World An unlikely friendship occurs as it is discovered Earth only has two weeks left.
	remove undo remove undo add Shiki-Jitsu The second live action film by Hideaki Anno, it was co-written by its star, Ayako Fujitani.
	remove undo remove undo add Silver Linings Playbook After spending four years in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and attempts to reconcile with his ex-wife, while finding himself attracted to a young woman who is equally as messed up as himself.
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	remove undo remove undo add The Adjustment Bureau The Adjustment Bureau is a science fiction film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "Adjustment Team".
	remove undo remove undo add The Apartment Baxter may just be a lonely cog at a giant Manhattan insurance firm with a crush on the elevator girl, but at least he has a nice apartment... Now if only he could get some time to himself in between his adulterous bosses constantly "borrowing" it...
	remove undo remove undo add The Great Gatsby A new 3D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. An aspiring stock-broker recounts the first time he met the elusive millionaire Jay Gatsby at the height of the roaring twenties, and how their friendship changed his life.
	remove undo remove undo add The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trillian is an upbeat adventurer who plays the foil to the perfectly uninteresting & depressed everyday man, Arthur Dent. Played by (who else?) Zooey Deschanel.
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	remove undo remove undo add What's Eating Gilbert Grape Juliette Lewis as Becky is a girl so quirky and pixie like that she forces Gilbert to complete change his life.
	remove undo remove undo add What's Up, Doc? A free-spirited young woman with a knack for causing chaos enters the life of a straight-laced musicologist and turns it into utter disarray.
	remove undo remove undo add Yes Man Zooey Deschanel plays a jogging/photography instructor who plays in a band with horse costumes on who falls in love with a man who says yes to everything.