Young Adult

Director Jason Reitman
Staring Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson and Patton Oswalt
Rating MA
Score 0/6

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

Getting to the end of this of movie was the cinematic equivalent of pulling teeth, I only managed to get to the end of this movie with the liberal use of the pause button and watching movie in several twenty minute blocks.
At best, the “Plot” of Young Adult comes across as an exercise in self-deluded behaviour that was poorly packaged in a clichéd soap opera wrapping.
Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody failed to showcase any of the writing talent in this façade of a comedy that managed to win her an Oscar for the movie Juno.

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