Overview
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
For the life of me I can’t figure out why Charlize Theron isn’t a bigger star. Sure, she did some big Hollywood movies like Fury Road and Atomic Blonde. But those were action movies and she is a tremendous dramatic actress – her most recent example of this are Tully and Bombshell (she was by far the best part of that movie). In this movie she did something that I think is hard to do – she played a despicable character without having the character be too despicable. For some reason I kept thinking of Katherin Heigl’s perfomance in the (severally over-rated) Knocked Up since that felt like someone that couldn’t play this kind of character. There is such a thing as too whiny. Anyway, it was an ok movie until the ending – it really surprised me in a good way. I wasn’t expecting it and it was refreshing.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Young Adult
Movie title: Young Adult
Movie description: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Date published: 2020-04-24
Director(s): Jason Reitman
Actor(s): Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Bekins, Mary Beth Hurt, Kate Nowlin, Jenny Dare Paulin, Rebecca Hart, Louisa Krause, Elizabeth Ward Land, Brian McElhaney, Hettienne Park, Ella Rae Peck, Emily Meade, J.K. Simmons
Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Review
For the life of me I can’t figure out why Charlize Theron isn’t a bigger star. Sure, she did some big Hollywood movies like Fury Road and Atomic Blonde. But those were action movies and she is a tremendous dramatic actress – her most recent example of this are Tully and Bombshell (she was by far the best part of that movie). In this movie she did something that I think is hard to do – she played a despicable character without having the character be too despicable. For some reason I kept thinking of Katherin Heigl’s perfomance in the (severally over-rated) Knocked Up since that felt like someone that couldn’t play this kind of character. There is such a thing as too whiny. Anyway, it was an ok movie until the ending – it really surprised me in a good way. I wasn’t expecting it and it was refreshing.
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My Review - 7/10
7/10