Young Adult

• Comedy
• Drama

A darkly comedic exploration of arrested development, *Young Adult* centers on Mavis Gary, a ghostwriter of juvenile fiction who, reeling from a divorce and fueled by copious amounts of alcohol, fixates on rekindling a connection with her seemingly perfect high school sweetheart. This isn’t a story of hopeful reunion but a painfully honest, and often cringe-inducing, portrait of desperate loneliness and self-delusion. Unlike traditional romantic comedies, the film doesn’t offer a path to happiness through love, but instead a brutally realistic, yet strangely cathartic, confrontation with one’s own failings and the uncomfortable truth that some doors are irrevocably closed. Mavis navigates her hometown with a biting cynicism, disrupting the lives of those around her as she attempts to unravel the idyllic facade of her past, leading to a uniquely unsettling and darkly humorous examination of identity and connection.