Everyone gets old. Not everyone grows up.
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Feb 20235/10
The premiss is that Charlize Theron ("Mavis Gary") is an erstwhile successful novelist, now divorced, borderline alcoholic and bored. She heads back to her home town in Minnesota to catch up with her parents - and, more importantly, to hook up with her now married ex-boyfriend, who now has a baby... When she arrives, she initially meets up with the guy whom everyone thought was gay at school, and was (very) badly beaten up, who warns her off her intended - "Buddy Slade" (good looking, but wooden as a skateboard Patrick Wilson). To be honest, I found this quite a hard watch - Theron is so convincingly odious as to make me want to throttle her. Add to that the nauseatingly forgiving nature of the townsfolk whose lives she would willingly have wrecked and it made me even more annoyed! Not sure who this is actually for, this film, but it certainly wasn't for me... A thing of shallowness.
Read the whole review on TMDB - DoryDarkoon TMDB · Feb 20178/10
Young Adult tells the story of 37-year-old Mavis Gary – a pathologically unhappy, immature, egotistical girl in a grown woman's body. Upon hearing of her ex-boyfriend's new born baby, she decides that they are still meant for each other, and the fact that he is now happily married to The Perfect Woman is but a minor detail on their road to eternal bliss. More simply put… Mavis is bat s*** crazy. Going into this movie, I thought it was going to be a hilarious comedy, full of LOL moments. Actually it is nothing of the sort. Thinking about it, seeing the way this "adult" woman lives out her life (sleeping till noon, living in a pigsty, forgetting to take care of her dog and playing children's video games), is really incredibly sad. No, it's pathetic. She is the author of 'young adult' books, which in any other case is a perfectly fine job, except in hers it basically means she vicariously lives the life of her main character – a high school girl. This is the emotional level Mavis is stuck in. Hearing about her ex-boyfriend's baby stirs an awkward obsession in Mavis. She packs her bags and returns to her small hometown in Minnesota – completely convinced that she and her ex Buddy are d
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Cast
- Charlize TheronMavis Gary
- Patton OswaltMatt Freehauf
- Patrick WilsonBuddy Slade
- Elizabeth ReaserBeth Slade
- Collette WolfeSandra Freehauf
- Jill EikenberryHedda Gary
- Richard BekinsDavid Gary
- Mary Beth HurtJan
- Kate NowlinMary Ellen Trantowski
- Jenny Dare PaulinNipple Confusion Bassist
Crew
- Jason ReitmanDirector
- Diablo CodyWriter
- Eric SteelbergDirector of Photography
- Mateo MessinaOriginal Music Composer
- Rolfe KentOriginal Music Composer
- Dana E. GlaubermanEditor
- Lianne HalfonProducer
- Mason NovickProducer
- Diablo CodyProducer
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