Young Adult

United States 2012, 94 mins
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Reaser

Synopsis

Charlize Theron (THE ROAD) dazzles in this edgy comedy of dysfunction from director Jason Reitman (UP IN THE AIR) and writer Diablo Cody (JUNO).

She is Mavis Gary, a thirty-something Minnesota fiction writer who returns to her small-town roots following her divorce to steal back an old flame (Wilson), who is married with kids.

Mavis might have been the high school It girl, and she may still look a million bucks in a pair of stilettos, but right now she's an emotional wreck, and it's going to take a hard dose of social suicide and a heart-to-heart with a victim of the popularity game she once dominated (Oswalt) before things can get better.

The laughs are dark and the message unapologetically blunt in this sharply scripted tale.