The director and writer of Juno re-team for this comedy-drama about a woman returning home in an attempt to revive her high...
The director and writer of Juno re-team for this comedy-drama about a woman returning home in an attempt to revive her high school glory years. Stars Charlize Theron (Monster).
Mavis (Theron) is a cynical, self-obsessed writer of teenage fiction who returns home - Mercury, Minnesota - to win back her high school crush: Buddy (Patrick Wilson, Insidious), now happily married and with kids. Buddy isn't particularly willing though, and having been roundly despised at school Mavis doesn't get support from her old chums either (referred to as the "psychotic prom queen bitch"). The plan goes awry. But she finds help in one former classmate (Patton Oswalt, The Informant!), who hasn't gotten over his high school years either.
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80 %198 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
49 %35,281 reviewsAudience score rating
"The deliberately prickly pic courageously risks offending audiences to arrive at a truth beyond its genre's normal grasp."
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Variety
Variety"While on sardonic turf, it's scathingly funny. Then it veers from biting wit to pitiful."
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USA Today
USA Today"Young Adult packs some ornery truths about compromise as the key to an arrested adolescent’s survival as an adult."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"Shrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The laughs in Young Adult leave bruises."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"I realized what a fearless character study it is."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Nobody ever said that adolescence was pretty."
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New York Post
New York Post"This is comedy extracted from pain start to finish."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Offers no real pleasure and has no resonance, other than a bitter aftertaste."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"A tart and abrasive character study."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"A fierce, fearless performance that deserves attention."
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E! Online
E! Online"An empathetic but bravely brittle portrait of an aging queen bee."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubYoung Adult | Details
- Runtime
- 93
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
