Young Adult (2011)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2011-12-09 - Wide Release
• Distributor(s): Paramount Pictures
• Film Genre(s): Dramedy
• Country: United States
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Scripted by Diabo Cody, the story centers on Mavis, an attractive, but single — and misguided and lost — mid-thirties young adult novel writer living in Minneapolis. Divorced, but not entirely unhappy, this woman's life is one day radically transformed when she receives a birth announcement from Buddy, an old, still-idealized ex-boyfriend, triggering something deep inside her. Shook up from the announcement, the insecure and neurotic woman concocts an ill- conceived plan to go visit the small town where she grew up and where her ex-bf still lives with his new wife and child. One of the central characters becomes Matt Freehauf, an overweight and physically disabled mid-30-something that went to high school with Mavis and then was infamously beat and crippled by jocks who assumed he was gay. Constantly hobbling around on crutches he'll be stuck with for life, he strikes an odd, adversarial repartee with Mavis that eventually becomes a strange friendship and he becomes the de facto voice of reason throughout the picture, trying to talk her out of her wild ideas and schemes.

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