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Young Adult
Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature, returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school either.
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When actors ask an audience to love them, they risk the possibility that the audience will eventually stop. Neediness is unbecoming in a star. Sally Field had it. Tom Hanks flirts with it. And Jim Carrey’s need to be taken seriously, then not that seriously has nearly ruined him. Charlize Theron’s desire to be appreciated beyond her beauty landed her in tough, unsmiling movies like “Monster,’’ “North Country,’’ and “The Burning Plain.’’ We took her seriously, but her idea of seriousness became loaded with misery - tremendous struggle and suffering and work. She was no longer an actress. She was a pack mule.
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