Young Adult

This movie stars Charlize Theron as the grown up in age, but in mind still young, "bitch you hated in high school" as the trailer dubs her. She is the writer of a young adult fiction series that is published under someone else's name and she is just merely the writer. She lives in the relatively large city of Minneapolis and is from some other small town in Minnesota. She gets an email that her high school boyfriend just had a baby and she decides then and there to go back and break up his marriage and win him back.
I thought the writing of this film was superb. Diablo Cody, who also wrote Juno, was the screenwriter and she teamed back up with director Jason Reitman of Juno and Up in the Air. I love when the two do a movie together because the product is just so great. The directing was pretty wonderful. There were some shots of Minnesota and Minneapolis that were just wonderful because they showed just how bleak these places were. The opening shot was of a single skyscraper that the lead lived in and it had a banner on it that read, "Lots of Space" or something of that manner. Cody's writing is always on point. She develops such odd characters. The lead has to be borderline unlikeable and you ride that line the whole time, and for me, I didn't verge to the unlikeable side.
The acting was also rather amazing. Any Charlize Theron movie will be pretty amazing though. After her turn in Monster as the first woman serial killer where she was all dirtied up (and won an Oscar), you turn and look at this where she just diversifies herself as an actor. She played this woman who is just so unhappy and drinks herself to sleep, and its just so cool to see someone be able to not be defined by a certain type of role and go from different role to the complete opposite of different (which i guess would be the same, but you know what I mean). The supporting cast not only held her up, but stood out at points. But still, the true star was Charlize Theron.
I loved this film because it was just so blatantly true and didn't care about anything but to tell the truth. If Diablo Cody doesn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay I will be very surprised.