 Stone had three film releases in 2009 . Her first role was opposite Matthew McConaughey , Jennifer Garner , and Michael Douglas in Mark Waters 's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past . Loosely based on Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol , the romantic comedy has her playing a ghost who haunts her former boyfriend . Critical reaction to the film was negative , though it was a modest commercial success . Her most financially profitable venture that year was Ruben Fleischer 's $ 102 @.@ 3 million @-@ grossing horror comedy film Zombieland , in which she was featured alongside Jesse Eisenberg , Woody Harrelson , and Abigail Breslin . She appears as a con @-@ artist , and survivor of a zombie apocalypse in a role which Empire 's Chris Hewitt found to be " somewhat underwritten " . In a more positive review , The Daily Telegraph wrote : " [ T ] he hugely promising Stone ... [ is ] a tough cookie who projects the aura of being wiser than her years . " Stone 's final release in 2009 was Kieran and Michelle Mulroney 's Paper Man , a comedy @-@ drama which polarized critics . 
