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 y... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseMavis is a sort of anti-Joan of Arc fueled not by the voice of angels, but rather that of the reality show stars that form her preferred and constant background noise. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA dark comedy that confirms Diablo Cody as a screenwriter of importance, eliminates the last shred of doubt that Jason Reitman is a major director and gives Charlize Theron her best showcase since "Monster." |
| Back StagePete HammondThe kind of pitch perfect black comedy studios seem to have abandoned. It's nice to see Paramount embracing such a smart effort again. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanA character study of uncommon originality and perceptiveness with a protagonist as fascinating as nearly any seen in 2011. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiThis result is a risky, high-wire act of a film that is as discomfiting as can be and is all the funnier and sadder because of it. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsClear-eyed, fearless and ferociously funny, Young Adult is mature filmmaking. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Young Adult" never finds its pitch of sardonic satire. Still, see the film for Patton Oswalt's great performance. Sadly, it's the only thing the movie has going for it. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersRaw, naked, completely unvarnished of all pretense or false emotional melodramatic flourishes, Charlize Theron's performance in Young Adult is a revelation. |
| Film4Catherine BrayIt's so rare that women get to play fully rounded, three dimensional, flawed human beings, that's it's almost kind of unsettling to realise that's what's going on here. |
| Shockya.comPerri NemiroffA different type of comedy compared to 'Juno' and certainly 'Jennifer's Body,' but still maintains the zest, heart & humor that solidified Cody as a top-notch screenwriter back in '07. |
