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A tart Auston Matthews Jersey Youth , abrasive character study of a seriously messed up writer who pens a twisted new episode to her own life, the pungent Young Adult feels like a chapter in what by rights should be a longer film or novel. As if deliberately setting out to make something less warm and friendly than his genial first three features, Jason Reitman reunites here with his Juno cohort Diablo Cody on a smartly observed, well acted but narrowly conceived story about a deluded author of teen novels who plots to win back her high school boyfriend, who鈥檚 now a happily married dad.


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Deftly done in every respect, this Paramount release, which oddly bypassed the fall festival circuit, is much closer in feel to an indie-style film than to a major studio production Mitchell Marner Jersey Youth , making it a curious choice for a Christmas launch. Okay commercial results look likely.


Entirely avoiding the sort of trademark showy dialogue that made her name on Juno, Cody most distinguishes herself here by creating two unusual characters of a kind rarely seen front and center in a mainstream film. The first is Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), a stunning woman who will be 40 before long, still hasn鈥檛 gotten her life together and would be considered, by most reckonings, a condescending, first-class bitch.


Living alone in a messy high-rise apartment in downtown Minneapolis, Mavis has been ghostwriting entries for an adolescent novel series for years Jason Spezza Jersey Womens , although this looks to be winding down. She鈥檚 a divorcee who can get guys when she wants but, when the excuse arrives to return to her small Minnesota hometown, she concocts a scheme to reclaim the glory that was hers as a teenager by luring away her high school boyfriend, Buddy (Patrick Wilson), no matter that the first time she sees him on her visit, he鈥檚 got a breast milk pump in hand.


Dolled up or not, Mavis is still a knockout, perceived by locals as a glamorous success who hasn鈥檛 changed at all since school days. She loathes the banality of the town and part of the early-stage humor stems from the dressed-to-kill Mavis having to frequent chicken-and-ribs-type sports bar restaurants Morgan Rielly Jersey Womens , the best the town has to offer. Despite her relative worldliness, Mavis is still an emotionally immature adolescent, with teenage priorities, prejudices and fantasies.


The second character of note, even more unusual, is Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt), a former high school classmate to whom she says, upon encountering him in a bar Frederik Andersen Jersey Womens , 鈥淵ou鈥檙e the hate crime guy!鈥?A caustic sad sack with a chip on his shoulder as large as Mavis鈥?sense of superiority, Matt relates how he was bullied and ultimately beaten up and left for dead by a bunch of jocks because they thought he was gay. The irony, he says, is that he isn鈥檛 gay but, since then, he hasn鈥檛 been good for much of anything, in that he鈥檚 permanently crippled and bent out of shape, physically and mentally.


Here William Nylander Jersey Womens , then, are the polar opposites of the high school experience, the babe with the highest self-esteem and the shlub with the lowest, both of whom remain emotionally stunted, basically where they were 20 years before. Such characters 鈥?the snooty mean queen and the razzed geek 鈥?are staples of teen pictures but are rarely seen as older people still carrying the same baggage. These two had nothing in common back then but now can really talk because they get one another and are willing to be frank; he calls her on her b.s. and she accuses him of using his disabilities as an excuse for doing nothing. Their scenes together are the film鈥檚 best, with Theron and Oswalt, who have very different tempi and temperatures as performers, parrying and thrusting with great expertise.


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