Random Wiki entry of the day: Manic Pixie Dream Girl (txt)
"Manic pixie dream girl (MPDG) is a name given to a type of stock character in films. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the phrase after seeing Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, describes the MPDG as 'that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_pixie_dream_girl
"Manic pixie dream girl (MPDG) is a name given to a type of stock character in films. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the phrase after seeing Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, describes the MPDG as 'that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_pixie_dream_girl