Winona Ryder is making her cinematic comeback in a typically kooky fashion.

The 36-year-old US actress, who made her name in off-the-wall movies including Edward Scissorhands and Heathers, is playing a married woman who falls in love with a ventriloquist's dummy.

The film sees Winona and the dummy get intimate, and despite the risque subject matter, the star said that it was the kind of script she was "drawn to".

She told Entertainment Weekly: "You know, it's not a script that I think a lot of agents would offer, and those are always the scripts that I always want.

"I tend to be drawn to things that some agents might try and dissuade me from doing.

"The movie is obviously satirical and dirty, but it's not mean. It actually does teach the Ten Commandments...just in a very ridiculous, funny way."

Winona was arrested in 2001 for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue department store in New York, which was followed by a high profile court case.

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