Young Adult Page #3

Synopsis: 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 a
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jason Reitman
Production: Paramount Studios
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 31 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2011
94 min
$16,295,033
Website
1,648 Views


and it takes me twice as long

as an able-bodied man

- to complete even the simplest task.

- Bummer.

And I do not want to invade ...

... Meeting of your school, so ...

go Injuns

Actually, they changed their name

to the Indians in 99.

the local Fon du Lac tribe and...

I go.

Sucks what happened to Matt.

the poor guy has suffered so

much just for being gay.

Hes not actually gay.

-I am sure it is.

-No.

Didnt you call him that theater fag

all the time in high school?

Theater fag is an expression.

Well, whatever. Mercurys changed

a lot since that happened. Its way less of a hick town.

Really?

Well, we have this place. Beats

Woodys, right?

And I heard they

might be putting in a Chipotle at the mall.

I saw you got a KenTacoHut.

You know. One of those combination

Kentucky Fried, Taco Bell...

-Pizza Hut!

-Yeah.

Brilliant!

Kentacohut!

You sound like one

of your crazy characters.

How is Alan?

Allen is great! Hes good.

Yes ... yes, well.

Were not married anymore

-But ...

-Sorry, no ...

Do not feel sorry, okay.

Well, thats Allens loss.

Sucks to be Allen.

Sorry I cant hang out longer,

but Ive got to relieve Beth. She has

band practice tonight.

-Beth is in a band?

Yes.

Yeah, its just something she does

with some other moms.

Wow. Cool.

Beths the drummer

Oh my God. Embarrassing.

Actually, Beths bands

playing here tomorrow night

Why dont you stop by our house

for a hang tomorrow?

Well have dinner, and

then we can all go to Beths show.

I would love that.

This is kind of silly, but could you sign one

of those

Waverley Place books for

me?

sure

Its not for me, obviously. Its

for my niece, Kendra.

She wants to

be a writer someday.

All right. Of course.

But you know, my

name isnt actually on the books.

I mean, its on the title page if

you check inside,

but Im basically a ghostwriter.

Still a pretty big deal

compared to the rest of us.

Its so great to see you

I always feel like we can pick up

right where we left off.

Exactly.

You know what?

You look the same.

I do?

Yeah. Its like the rest of us

changed and you just got lucky.

-See you tomorrow.

Yes, nice.

All right.

Hello?

I just want you to know that what

you saw today wasnt

... what you think it was. Okay?

Oh. Youre not trying to destroy

Buddy Slades marriage?

Its way more complicated than you

could possibly ever understand.

Buddy and I have years of history between us,

and its very rich

and complex.

Yeah, sounds like its definitely

beyond my comprehension.

Dont open a new ranch until the

old one is done.

What

Sorry...my sister. Forget it.

Just so you know.

I got it, thanks!

Want to Get loaded or something?

Im Mavis.

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Diablo Cody

Brook Busey-Maurio (born June 14, 1978), better known by the pen name Diablo Cody,[1] is an American screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer. She first became known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her "The Pussy Ranch" blog and in her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (2005). more…

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