Variety
The deliberately prickly pic courageously risks offending audiences to arrive at a truth beyond its genre's normal grasp.
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Young Adult
The director and writer of Juno re-team for this comedy-drama about a woman returning home in an attempt to revive her high school glory years. Stars Charlize Theron (Monster).
Mavis (Theron) is a cynical, self-obsessed writer of teenage fiction who returns home - Mercury, Minnesota - to win back her high school crush: Buddy (Patrick Wilson, Insidious), now happily married and with kids. Buddy isn't particularly willing though, and having been roundly despised at school Mavis doesn't get support from her old chums either (referred to as the "psychotic prom queen bitch"). The plan goes awry. But she finds help in one former classmate (Patton Oswalt, The Informant!), who hasn't gotten over his high school years either.
201193 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Jason Reitman ('Up in the Air', 'Juno', 'Thank You for Smoking')
- Writer:
- Diablo Cody
- Cast:
- Charlize TheronPatrick WilsonJ.K. SimmonsElizabeth ReaserPatton OswaltEmily Meade
Young Adult / Reviews
USA Today
While on sardonic turf, it's scathingly funny. Then it veers from biting wit to pitiful.
Full reviewTime Magazine
Young Adult packs some ornery truths about compromise as the key to an arrested adolescent’s survival as an adult.
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The New York Times
Shrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy.
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