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.
- Director:
- Jason Reitman ('Up in the Air', 'Juno', 'Thank You for Smoking')
- Writer:
- Diablo Cody
- Cast:
- Charlize TheronPatrick WilsonJ.K. SimmonsElizabeth ReaserPatton OswaltEmily Meade
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressThe deliberately prickly pic courageously risks offending audiences to arrive at a truth beyond its genre's normal grasp.
USA Today
pressWhile on sardonic turf, it's scathingly funny. Then it veers from biting wit to pitiful.
Time Magazine
pressYoung Adult packs some ornery truths about compromise as the key to an arrested adolescent’s survival as an adult.
The New York Times
pressShrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy.
IndieWire
pressOffers no real pleasure and has no resonance, other than a bitter aftertaste.
Director Jason Reitman was born to succeed. In his youth he would have had access to some of the funniest movie sets and best comedic minds of the 80's and 90's. His education was to watch the creation of modern classics such as Meatballs, Ghost Busters, Stripes & Kindergarten Cop. As if that wasn't enough, at the end of each day his father, Ivan...
This is a great performance from Charlize as Mavis a young adult writer. She decides to go back to the small town she grew up in and get her old high school boyfriend back. Charlize is amazing in every scene. There are funny moments,shocking and also heartfelt moments as well. I am very disapointed that the academey didn't get her an Oscar nomination this...
Variety
pressThe deliberately prickly pic courageously risks offending audiences to arrive at a truth beyond its genre's normal grasp.
USA Today
pressWhile on sardonic turf, it's scathingly funny. Then it veers from biting wit to pitiful.
Time Magazine
pressYoung Adult packs some ornery truths about compromise as the key to an arrested adolescent’s survival as an adult.
The New York Times
pressShrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy.
IndieWire
pressOffers no real pleasure and has no resonance, other than a bitter aftertaste.
Director Jason Reitman was born to succeed. In his youth he would have had access to some of the funniest movie sets and best comedic minds of the 80's and 90's. His education was to watch the creation of modern classics such as Meatballs, Ghost Busters, Stripes & Kindergarten Cop. As if that wasn't enough, at the end of each day his father, Ivan...
This is a great performance from Charlize as Mavis a young adult writer. She decides to go back to the small town she grew up in and get her old high school boyfriend back. Charlize is amazing in every scene. There are funny moments,shocking and also heartfelt moments as well. I am very disapointed that the academey didn't get her an Oscar nomination this...
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