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    Secret Screenings At The New Beverly | …The Reitman/Cody collaboration proved grimly entertaining. Young Adult follows a ghostwriter of young adult fiction (Theron) as she returns to her Minnesota hometown under false pretenses to win back her high school beau. Oswalt’s character provides equally dark yet heartfelt comic relief throughout. During the Q&A Cody discussed her fight to keep the usual bag of Hollywood ending tricks out of her script: “I didn’t want this to be one of those films where the character undergoes some dramatic lesson-learning turn in the third act.” Indeed, much like Juno, the film is bittersweet, and again, like Juno, bears the hoof prints of an Oscar contender. continue reading | Los Angeles I’m Yours | Zachary Urbina

    Secret Screenings At The New Beverly |

    …The Reitman/Cody collaboration proved grimly entertaining. Young Adult follows a ghostwriter of young adult fiction (Theron) as she returns to her Minnesota hometown under false pretenses to win back her high school beau. Oswalt’s character provides equally dark yet heartfelt comic relief throughout. During the Q&A Cody discussed her fight to keep the usual bag of Hollywood ending tricks out of her script: “I didn’t want this to be one of those films where the character undergoes some dramatic lesson-learning turn in the third act.” Indeed, much like Juno, the film is bittersweet, and again, like Juno, bears the hoof prints of an Oscar contender. continue reading | Los Angeles I’m Yours | Zachary Urbina

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