Young Adult: Charlize Theron shines as an aging prom queen hellbent on homewrecking [MOVIE REVIEW]
Charlize Theron stars in Young Adult. What if high school really was the best time of your life? In the case of “Yong Adult,” directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, the beautiful Mavis Gary, ghost writer of a successful young adult book series, plays out those halcyon years in print, book after book after book. Except now the series is ending and she must write a final chapter. The divorced Mavis, still beautiful in that high school prom queen sort of way, drinks too much, sleeps around too frequently, and lacks the recognition and insight to see that she is stuck in the mire of “what should have been.” When she receives a casual email announcing the birth of her high school sweetheart Buddy’s new baby, she becomes delusionally convinced that this was his way of proclaiming his undying love and need to be rescued from a mundane life of babies and suburban housewives. Mavis packs her bag, bundles up her little dog and leaves the teeming metropolis of Minneapolis for Mercury, still home to most of her high school classmates. Arriving in town under a ruse, she calls Buddy and makes a date. Observed by Matt, the geek who stared longingly and invisibly at Mavis…
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