Diablo Cody set the bar pretty high with her first feature, Juno, but Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) follows right in our favorite blue slushy chugging teen pregnancy case’s footsteps. Well, somewhat.
Mavis is quite literally a young adult. She’s all grown up and working in Minneapolis as the ghostwriter of the once popular young adult series, Waverly Prep, but she’s very much stuck in the past. When her marriage fails and she’s asked to pen the final installment of the series, Mavis attempts to use her high school flame, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), to lift her spirits. Regardless of his loving wife and child, Mavis packs up her things, hops in her car and heads back to her hometown, Mercy, Minnesota, to get her man. With her brash attitude and selfish nature in tow, Mavis plows through town, chugging as much diet coke and alcohol along the way as possible, to reclaim her man and reinforce her position as the popular girl in school.
In honor of Young Adult’s December 9th limited release and the December 16th wide expansion, Cody, Theron and Patton Oswalt who steals scenes as the former high school punching bag, Matt Freehauf, went from the “Mini-Apple” to the Big Apple to spread the word at a press conference. Check out the highlights from the event in the video below.
