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Post Grad (2009)

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Reviews Counted:78

Fresh:7

Rotten:71

Average Rating:3.7/10

Consensus: A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual situations and brief strong language.

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Aug 21, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $6,290,448

Synopsis: Ryden Malby (Bledel) had a plan. Do well in high school, thereby receiving a great college scholarship. Now that she’s finally graduated, it’s time for her to find a gorgeous loft apartment and... Ryden Malby (Bledel) had a plan. Do well in high school, thereby receiving a great college scholarship. Now that she’s finally graduated, it’s time for her to find a gorgeous loft apartment and land her dream job at the city’s best publishing house. But when Jessica Bard (Reitman), Ryden’s college nemesis steals her perfect job, Ryden is forced to move back to her childhood home. Stuck with her eccentric family – a stubborn do-it-yourself dad (Keaton), an overly thrifty mom (Lynch), a politically incorrect grandma (Burnett), a very odd little brother (Coleman) – and a growing stack of rejected job applications, Ryden starts to feel like she’s going nowhere. The only upside is spending time with her best friend, Adam (Zach Gilford) – and running into her hot next-door neighbor, David (Santoro). But if Ryden’s going to survive life as a post grad, it may be time to come up with a new plan… --© Fox Searchlight [More]

Starring: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Jane Lynch

Starring: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett, Michael Keaton

Director: Vicky Jenson

Director: Vicky Jenson
Screenwriter: Kelly Fremon
Producer: Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Jeffrey Clifford
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Alexis Bledel is miscast as an oddball in Post Grad, but the rest of the movie has oddity aplenty.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
08/21/09
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

In Post Grad, although screwiness abounds, I was wishing there were a bit more rule-breaking.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/21/09
Graham Killeen
Graham Killeen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Without Alexis Bledel, this pic would be a TV sitcom. With her, merely passable.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment 1 Comment
08/16/09
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Its plot developments are safe and predictable, but the things Post Grad does well suggest it could have been more than just another middling romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
08/28/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

The Proposal and The Ugly Truth only wish they had some of the charm of unpretentious diversions such as Bandslam or Post Grad.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment 1 Comment
08/21/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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A feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 19 Comments
08/20/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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It should be popular fare at slumber parties for diligent girls well into the next decade.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/21/09
Sara Schieron
Sara Schieron
Boxoffice Magazine

What it eventually becomes is not so much a treatise on the inequities of the workplace as another romantic comedy, light on the comedy and not much heavier on the romance.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/21/09
Globe and Mail

Though supporting players Jane Lynch, Michael Keaton, and Burnett make a valiant go of it, the film, perhaps a casualty of its own meandering aspirations, never graduates to anything special.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
08/19/09
Alicia Potter
Alicia Potter
Boston Phoenix

The greatest actress in the history of drama couldn't make first-timer Kelly Fremon's sow's ear of a screenplay into a sow's ear sandwich, much less a silk purse.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
08/19/09
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

I would like to take this occasion to lodge a complaint. There is no valid reason, none in the observable universe, why mainstream romantic comedies must adhere to the same script.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment 1 Comment
08/21/09
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

It's a harmless movie that could have been even better if they made Michael Keaton the main star.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
08/29/09
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

Often drags and falls flat as a stale, contrived drama and painfully unfunny comedy with forgettable, cardboard characters.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
08/21/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

It's pleasant enough, which is an OK description for a summer afternoon, but not for a movie. At least not one with ambition beyond the standard fare.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/19/09
Bill Goodykoontz
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic

Post Grad needs to go back to school.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/20/09
Blake French
Blake French
Filmcritic.com

Hopes to be many things to many different audiences. It's a meandering mess of a motion picture, enlivened by a few performances, but ultimately, and quite aggressively, ineffectual and dreary.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
08/20/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
08/19/09
Calvin Wilson
Calvin Wilson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Post Grad - 'Gilmore Girl' gone mild

Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | comment Comment
08/22/09
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
What Would Toto Watch?

It has no idea what it wants to be; as a result, it gets nothing right.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
08/19/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
08/20/09
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
 
 
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