Young Adult (2011)

Release date: 2011-12-16
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Jason Reitman
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Denver and Delilah Productions, Indian Paintbrush
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 6.2/10
Length: 1h 34min

Storyline

Thirty-seven year old Mavis Gary seems incapable of happiness. She has had one failed marriage with no romance in her immediate horizon. She ghosts writes a young adult series of books, which has just been canceled due to low sales. She is in the process of writing the last book, with which she is having a mental block. She lives vicariously through Kendall Strickland, the teenaged female heroine in her books, as like Kendall she believes her high school years were the best years of her life when she was the prom queen. When she receives news that her high school beau, Buddy Slade, and his wife, Beth Slade, have just had their first child, Mavis takes it as a sign that she and Buddy are meant to be together. As such, she devises a false pretense to travel from her Minneapolis home back her her old hometown of Mercury, Minnesota to reclaim Buddy from Beth. As Mavis slyly or not so slyly does whatever she can to hang out with Buddy, even in Beth's company if need be, she also runs into ...

Plot Keywords

emotional breakdown, mental illness, drinking, narcissism, singing in a car, car damage, borderline personality disorder, alcoholic, hate crime, high school, makeup, sexual promiscuity, female nudity, fellatio, guitar, guitar player, penis, on the road, computer, motel

Short Review

There has always been something so inward about [Theron;] she can seem detached or deprived. But here it's as if the script and the direction felt bound to heed that loneliness, and let the actress go with her bravery and the depressive sag of her mouth.