Young Adult (2011)

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Directed by

Jason Reitman

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Charlize Theron
Mavis Gary

Patton Oswalt
Matt Freehauf

Patrick Wilson
Buddy Slade

Elizabeth Reaser
Beth Slade

Collette Wolfe
Sandra Freehauf

Jill Eikenberry
Hedda Gary

Richard Bekins
David Gary

Mary Beth Hurt
Jan

Written by

Diablo Cody
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Young Adult

9 years, 1 month ago at Mar 16 7:40

JxSxPx

4 votes

However did Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman get the funding to make this film? It eschews so many of the conventional narrative tricks for character studies like this, namely our main character doesn’t appear to change much by the end. We’re stuck with a dark, sour, alcoholic woman whose personal highlights are behind her, and who has crystallized her power-bitch prom-queen persona into a fright... read more

An honest and brutally funny character study.

8 years, 11 months ago at Jun 13 14:10

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"Sometimes in order to heal a few people have to get hurt."

The last collaboration between director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody was back in 2007 with the Oscar-winning Juno. Now, after the amazing Up in the Air, Reitman reunites again with Cody, and the result is Young Adult. It's definitely a far-cry from Juno, but Reitman and Cody handle the subject matter amazingl... read more

An average movie

7 years, 3 months ago at Feb 7 22:16

johanlefourbe

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Starting with 3 critical successes in a row, it seemed that Jason Reitman could do now wrong and was set to become one of the most exciting directors at work nowadays. However, his impressive progression seemed to have slow down with this 4th directing effort which didn’t get much love when it was eventually released. To start with, in his previous movies, the main character was flawed but still... read more

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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.

Release date: 16 December 2011

Tags: 2011 (11), Drama (10), Comedy (10), Writer (6), Small Town (6), Minnesota (4), 2010s (4), Black Comedy (3), Depression (3), Alcoholism (3), Alcoholic (3), Bar (2), Jealousy (2), High School (2), America (2), Marriage (2), Charlize Theron (2), Band (2), Drinking (2), American (2)

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