Young Adult (2011) The Movie

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Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful writer of teen literature who returns to her hometown with a dual mission: to relive her glory days and steal away ...
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful writer of teen literature who returns to her hometown with a dual mission: to relive her glory days and steal away her now-married high-school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). However, her mission does not go exactly to plan, and she finds her homecoming more problematic than she expected. Instead, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt), who has also found it difficult to move past high school.

Nov 27, 2019 · Young Adult is an endlessly frustrating film, but is filled with entertaining and dysfunctional characters who keep you guessing what is going ...
A film with a truly terrible protagonist.

There are countless movies about Queen Bitches in high school, but "Young Adult" has its revenge by showing how miserable they can be when they're pushing 40.
They must have closed their eyes and crossed their fingers while they were making this film. It breaks with form, doesn't follow our expectations, and is

Nov 6, 2024 · Young Adult is a starkly cynical movie from writer Diablo Cody (Juno) and director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), and was certainly promoted ...
Mavis Gray (Charlize Theron) is a 37 year-old divorced alcoholic earning a living from ghost-writing pulp teen romance novels. When she is e-mailed a photograph of her high school sweetheart’…
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Oct 21, 2011 · A darkly funny, frequently awkward, and sad film. But amid the uncomfortable situations and between the unpleasant and forlorn characters, Reitman and Cody ...
Dark, funny, awkward, human.

Apr 4, 2018 · Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody propelled high onto my list of directors and writers after their successful film Juno (2007).
Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody propelled high onto my list of directors and writers after their successful film Juno (2007). The two have collaborated on a new film, Tully (2018), which is one of my…

A 37-year-old ghostwriter for a series of young adult novels soon to be cancelled, returns to her small Minnesota hometown, angling to hook up with her old ...
★★★★ (4/4) Scabrous black comedy from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, starring Charlize Theron as a faltering writer who returns to her hometown...

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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Dec 12, 2011 · Movie review of Young Adult (2011) by The Critical Movie Critics | After a breakdown a snobby princess returns to her hometown to regroup.
Movie review of Young Adult (2011) by The Critical Movie Critics

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Young Adult 2011 95 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson I have often written about what I feel is a distinct double-standard when it c...

Feb 1, 2021 · Rated R for being a Diablo Cody movie. That means that there's a lot of hip swearing going on throughout the movie.
Rated R for being a Diablo Cody movie. That means that there's a lot of hip swearing going on throughout the movie. Similarly, this is one of those movies about pretty girls being terrible...

Jan 21, 2012 · A writer of a series of young adult novels centering around the solipsistic machinations of high school girls, Mavis lives in a high-rise condo overlooking the ...
SPOILERS: HERE I COME Mavis Gary is one of the most original characters American cinema has produced in years and Charlize Theron totally embodies her. So wheres the buzz? The film, and Theron,...

Dec 15, 2011 · A black comedy about a selfish, mean-spirited woman who gets plenty of chances to confront herself and realise what an acidic monster she is.
Young Adult - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton

Dec 12, 2011 · “My biggest problem with the movie is they make Mavis too much of a heroic character.” Huh? MrsRedFox December 12, 2011 At ...
daniel cohen reviews the new Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman collaboration … Plot: Alcoholic burn out young adult writer Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown to try and win back her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson), now married, and with a newborn child. Charlize Theron walks around with a constant hangover in the new Jason […]

Apr 13, 2020 · I think you definitely need to look at this film more as a character study than an actual conventional story. And I suppose how much you ...
This movie only gets better with age. I agree with posters who propose that Mavis forces a confrontation between the viewer and themselves as well as social relationships that were less than comfortable from our pasts. Often when we are most repelled by human behavior, it's because we notice a trait that we don't want to recognize in ourselves. Now, I don't identify with Mavis whatsoever on the surface, but since everyone has been blind or narcissistic or coped with thoughts of superiority, there are plenty of opportunities to engage with this character, just ones we don't want to take. Theron embodies a tragic person who simultaneously earns our sympathy as a human being while not necessarily earning all of our respect beyond that.