Young Adult Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Jason Reitman

Produced by:Jason Reitman,Diablo Cody,Lianne Halfon,Russell Smith,Mason Novick.

Written by:Diablo Cody

Starring:Charlize Theron,Patton Oswalt,Patrick Wilson,Elizabeth Reaser.

Music by:Rolfe Kent

Cinematography:Eric Steelberg

Editing by:Dana E. Glauberman

Studio:Mandate Pictures,Mr. Mudd,Right of Way Films.

Distributed by:Paramount Pictures

Release Date: 9 December  2011 (2011-12-09)

Country:United States

Language:English

Budget:$12 million

Plot: Per the official website:Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.

Production: Screenwriter Diablo Cody said the genesis of the film came from This common question I would get at Q&As or press junkets or what-have-you was: "Why are you so fixated on [movies about] adolescents?" [I began wondering:] Am I stunted somehow? And so as I thought about my own life, I thought, "Gosh, that would be a great character—a woman in her 30s who writes young-adult fiction and does in fact cling to deluded teenage fantasies in her real life, and is obsessed with recreating her teenage years come hell or high water." Writing a spec script, she sent drafts to her friend and Juno director, Jason Reitman, for critique. When Labor Day, a film Reitman had been preparing had its production pushed to 2012, he had a window to direct Cody's script, shot on a $12 million budget in 30 days. After Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson were cast, Patton Oswalt was signed after doing a table read-through of the script at Reitman's house. Patton said that because his character, Matt Freehauf, had been badly beaten as a teen and was required to walk with a brace, he consulted with both an acting coach and a physical therapist to prepare for the role: "I just wanted less and less to have to think about so I could be more present in the scenes with Charlize. She's a really instinctual actor and I really didn't want to be sitting there with eight other thoughts on my head while she's just rolling with it.