Young Adult

– A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.30 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 34 Minutes
Release Year:
2011
Young Adult (2011)

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

Young Adult (2011) - Trailer

Release Date:

16 Dec 2011

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Jason Reitman

Writer:

Diablo Cody

Main Actors:

Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser

Plot:

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 another old high school colleague named Matt Freehauf. She barely remembers Matt until she is reminded that he was the "hate crime" kid i.e. he was beaten almost to death by the school jocks who believed he was gay (which he is not), which has left him among other things needing to walk with a brace. Matt ends up being Mavis' drinking buddy and confidante, Matt, in turn, who tries to be Mavis' voice of reason to get her out of her delusional state about Buddy and get a grip on reclaiming her life as a functioning adult.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 31 nominations.

Gross profit:

$16,295,033

Production:

Paramount Studios

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Metacritic:
71%