
Ryden Malby has planned her academic life since she was in high school to get a college scholarship; now she has just graduated in English and in her master plan she expects to get a job as assistant editor in the publishing house Happerman & Browning, in Los Angeles. Her platonic best friend is Adam Davis, who has a crush on her and is frequently close to her. However, her arrogant classmate Jessica Bard gets the position and Ryden is forced to return home in the suburb to l... (Full plot summary below)
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Ryden Malby has planned her academic life since she was in high school to get a college scholarship; now she has just graduated in English and in her master plan she expects to get a job as assistant editor in the publishing house Happerman & Browning, in Los Angeles. Her platonic best friend is Adam Davis, who has a crush on her and is frequently close to her. However, her arrogant classmate Jessica Bard gets the position and Ryden is forced to return home in the suburb to live with her family: her optimistic father Walter, who wants to do everything by himself; her careful mother Carmella who administrates the short resources of her family; her eccentric grandmother Maureen; and her weird little brother Hunter, who wants to race in a boxcar derby. Ryden unsuccessfully seeks a job and feels frustrated, but is emotionally supported by Adam. When Walter accidentally runs over the cat of his next-door neighbor David Santiago with Ryden's car, they visit him to give their sympathies. Ryden feels attracted by the handsome Brazilian and has a brief affair with him, forgetting Adam, who decides to move to New York to study at Columbia Law School. Meanwhile Ryden is invited to join Happerman & Browning and discovers that feelings cannot be planned.
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| eFilmCritic.comEric D. SniderIf Post Grad were a job applicant, it would not be hired. In all likelihood, it would have gotten lost between the elevator and the office, then sat on the floor and dribbled until someone called security. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfHopes to be many things to many different audiences. It's a meandering mess of a motion picture, enlivened by a few performances, but ultimately, and quite aggressively, ineffectual and dreary. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonThe movie then works vigorously to squander both talent and timeliness. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongPost Grad may be the strangest film of 2009. Unfortunately, not strange in a good way, strange in a bad way. |
| Cinemalogue.comRubin Safaya...a coming-of-age tableau that is neither inspirational nor uplifting. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's a screwball comedy. It's also, I have to say, a feel-good movie that made me smile a lot. |
| Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoIt should be popular fare at slumber parties for diligent girls well into the next decade. |
| E! OnlinePeter ParasAs for Bledel, she's certainly likeable, but lacks any real charisma here. |
| People MagazineLeah RozenLike festive icing on a plain vanilla cake, a fun cast and offbeat humor hugely increase the palatability of Post Grad. |