# Young Adult

Young Adult is a 2011 black comedy film starring Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Patrick Wilson. The film follows Mavis Gary, a 37-year-old ghostwriter for a young adult series of books. Unsatisfied with her life and yearning for the glory days of her high school years, she returns to her small Minnesota hometown looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend Buddy, who is now happily married with a newborn daughter.
    Directed by Jason Reitman. Written by Diablo Cody.

## Mavis Gary

* I hate this town! It's a hick, lake town that smells of fish shit!
* Sometimes in order to heal... a few people have to get hurt.
* [last lines] Life, here I come.

## Matt Freehauf

* Guys like me are born loving women like you.
* Talk about dwelling on the past. Here you are back in Mercury, like a loser, trying to score with a happily married man.

## Dialogue

    Mavis: I’m going to a rock concert with an old flame and I think there is a chance we may reconnect.
    Sales Lady: Let's show him what he's been missing.
    Mavis: No, he's seen me recently. He knows. But his wife hasn't seen me in a while, so.
    Mavis: Hey, do you know this girl named Beth? She married Buddy Slade from school.
    Sandra: Yeah, I know that Beth.
    Mavis: What do you think of her?
    Sandra: I don't really like her. I mean, I think you're way prettier than she is. What happened to your dress? I'm sorry, did I say something wrong? Shit. What's wrong? What did I say?
    Mavis: I have a lot of problems.
    Sandra: Can't you get a new dress?
    Mavis: It's really difficult for me to be happy. And then for other people it just seems so simple. I know. They just grow up and they're so fulfilled.
    Sandra: I don't feel fulfilled. And frankly, if you don't feel fulfilled with all the stuff that you have.
    Mavis: I need to change, Sandra.
    Sandra: No, you don't.
    Mavis: What?
    Sandra: You're the only person in Mercury who could write a book or wear a dress like that.
    Mavis: I'm sure there's plenty of other people who could.
    Sandra: Everyone here is fat and dumb.
    Mavis: Don't say that. I mean, you think so?
    Sandra: Everyone wishes that they could be like you. You know, living in the big city all famous and beautiful and all that.
    Mavis: I'm not really famous.
    Sandra: Well, you know, special or whatever. I mean, some days when I have a slow shift at work I'll sit and think about you living in your cool apartment, going out and stuff. It seems really nice.
    Mavis: Yeah, but most people here seem so happy with so little. It's like they don't even seem to care what happens to them.
    Sandra: That's because it doesn't matter what happens to them. They're nothing. Might as well die. Fuck Mercury.
    Buddy: Mercury's changed a lot since then, though. We're way less of a hick town.
    Mavis: Really?
    Buddy: Yeah, we've got this place. It beats Woody's, right? And we're getting a new Chipotle at the mall.
    Mavis: And I noticed you got a KenTacoHut. You know, one of those Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell.
    Buddy: Pizza Hut! That's genius. KenTacoHut. You sound like one of your crazy characters.
    Sandra: Take me with you.
    Mavis: Excuse me?
    Sandra: Take me with you. To the Mini Apple.
    Mavis: You're good here, Sandra.
    Buddy: Mavis, what the hell is going on?
    Mavis: Why did you invite me?
    Buddy: I didn't invite you. My wife did. Beth practically forced me to call you. She feels sorry for you. We all do, Mavis. It's obvious you're having some mental sickness, some depression. You're very lonely and confused. So Beth made me invite you here even though I knew it was a mistake. I knew it.
    Mavis: You're lying.
    Beth: He's not.
    Mavis: Well. What about now? You hate me now? Cause it should be easy because I fucking hate you.
    Buddy: It sucks what happened to Matt. That poor guy suffered so much just for being gay.
    Mavis: He's not actually gay.
    Buddy: Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is.
    Mavis: No.
    Buddy: Didn't you call him a theater fag all the time in high school?
    Mavis: Theater fag is an expression, Buddy.
    Mavis: Weren't you that hate crime guy?
    Matt: Excuse me?
    Mavis: You totally were. You're the hate crime guy! Oh my God, why didn't you just say that? Now I know who you are. Matt, the hate crime guy.
    Matt: Yes, Mavis. When when we were seniors a bunch of jocks who thought I was gay jumped me in the woods.
    Mavis: That's right!
    Matt: And hit me on the legs and dick with a crowbar.
    Mavis: With a crowbar. I totally remember that.
    Matt: It was national news. I mean, until people found out I wasn't really gay. Then it wasn't a hate crime anymore. It was a fat guy getting his ass beat.
    Mavis: Didn't you get to miss a bunch of school?
    Matt: Yes, I got to miss about six months. It was awesome.
    Mavis: Fuck. How's your dick?
    Matt: Not good. Not good.
    Mavis: Does it work?
    Matt: Yeah, it works. You know, it just kind of does. [makes sideways hand gesture]

## Cast

* Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary
* Patton Oswalt as Matt Freehauf
* Patrick Wilson as Buddy Slade
* Elizabeth Reaser as Beth Slade
* Collette Wolfe as Sandra Freehauf
* Elizabeth Ward Land as Sales Lady

## Taglines

* Everyone gets old. Not everyone grows up.

## External links

* Young Adult quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Young Adult at Rotten Tomatoes