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Young Adult is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, written by Diablo Cody, and starring Charlize Theron. Reitman and Cody worked together previously on Juno (2007). Young Adult began a limited release on December 9, 2011, before expanding to a wide release on December 16, 2011.
Mavis Gary, once the high school 'It Girl', now an alcoholic divorcée who writes a soon-to-be-canceled young-adult fiction series, makes the decision to return to her childhood home in Minnesota. There she embarks on a plan to win back her former sweetheart, Buddy.
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A down-and-out writer hatches warped plans to win back her high school boyfriend and connects with a former classmate who also can’t move on from the past. Watch trailers & learn more.
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful writer of teen literature who returns to her hometown with a dual mission: to relive her glory days and steal away her now-married high-school...
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Dec 8, 2011 · In “Young Adult,” Charlize Theron plays a pretty and poised but mean and self-pitying woman who tries to get out of a rut by returning home and reconnecting with her youth.
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Available on Paramount+, MGM+, Philo, Prime Video, Sling TV. Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron stars as Mavis Gary, a 37-year-old former prom queen, and current writer of young adult novels, who returns home to relive her glory days and win back her now-married high school sweetheart.
Dec 9, 2011 · Reteaming pop-savvy scribe Diablo Cody with "Juno" director Jason Reitman, Young Adult revels in breaking the rules of safe Hollywood storytelling.
Dec 6, 2011 · Young Adult, which has been directed by Reitman with heightened attention to the way people behave when they’re alone, is good as far as it goes, but it feels more like a snapshot than a full...
