About this movie
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Charlize Theron
Mavis Gary
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Patton Oswalt
Matt Freehauf
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Patrick Wilson
Buddy Slade
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Elizabeth Reaser
Beth Slade
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Collette Wolfe
Sandra Freehauf
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Jill Eikenberry
Hedda Gary
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Richard Bekins
David Gary
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Mary Beth Hurt
Jan
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Kate Nowlin
Mary Ellen Trantowski
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Jenny Dare Paulin
Nipple Confusion Bassist
Directors
- Jason Reitman
Producers
- Helen Estabrook
- Nathan Kahane
- John Malkovich
- Steven M. Rales
- Jason Reitman
- Lianne Halfon
- Mason Novick
- Russell Smith
Writers
- Diablo Cody
Young Adult
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Trailer for Young Adult
Upon returning to her small Minnesota hometown to win back her high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson), now a happily-married father, divorced young adult fiction author Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) forges an unexpected bond with another former schoolmate (Patton Oswalt) who's had a particularly difficult life. Juno collaborators Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody re-team for this Paramount Pictures production.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
80%
percent positive reviews
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Catherine Bray, Film4It's so rare that women get to play fully rounded, three dimensional, flawed human beings, that's it's almost kind of unsettling to realise that's what's going on here.
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Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph
A mouthwateringly sour anti-romantic comedy directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody...
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
Cody delivers a stinging repudiation of that sentimental piety that is also Hollywood's biggest and most fatuous lie: that home is always best, and monochrome Kansas is better than dazzling,...
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Cath Clarke, Time Out
There is a raw honesty here rare in movies, and it's very funny too - excruciating at times.
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Angie Errigo, Empire Magazine
Smart, honest, sickeningly funny and supremely well judged in the writing, direction and acting.
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