Young Adult Soundtrack

Synopsis: Thirty-seven year old Mavis Gary seems incapable of happiness. She has had one failed marriage with no romance in her immediate horizon. She ghosts writes a young adult series of books, which has just been canceled due to low sales. She is in the process of writing the last book, with which she is having a mental block. She lives vicariously through Kendall Strickland, the teenaged female heroine in her books, as like Kendall she believes her high school years were the best years of her life when she was the prom queen. When she receives news that her high school beau, Buddy Slade, and his wife, Beth Slade, have just had their first child, Mavis takes it as a sign that she and Buddy are meant to be together. As such, she devises a false pretense to travel from her Minneapolis home back her her old hometown of Mercury, Minnesota to reclaim Buddy from Beth. As Mavis slyly or not so slyly does whatever she can to hang out with Buddy, even in Beth's company if need be, she also runs into a
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jason Reitman
Production: Paramount Studios
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 31 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2011
94 min
$16,295,033
Website
1,691 Views


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#SongDuration
1Achin' to Be3:42
2Big Me2:19
3Black Hole Sun4:44
4Epic4:02
5Even Flow6:24
6Feel the Pain4:17
7It's a Shame About Ray3:07
8Low4:33
9Pledge Your Allegiance4:29
10Seether3:16
11The Concept6:06
12What's Up4:56
13When We Grow Up2:08
14Where It's At4:19

Diablo Cody

Brook Busey-Maurio (born June 14, 1978), better known by the pen name Diablo Cody,[1] is an American screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer. She first became known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her "The Pussy Ranch" blog and in her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (2005). more…

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