Alexis Bledel is miscast as an oddball in Post Grad, but the rest of the movie has oddity aplenty.
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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Reviews for Post Grad
In Post Grad, although screwiness abounds, I was wishing there were a bit more rule-breaking.
Without Alexis Bledel, this pic would be a TV sitcom. With her, merely passable.
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.
The Proposal and The Ugly Truth only wish they had some of the charm of unpretentious diversions such as Bandslam or Post Grad.
It should be popular fare at slumber parties for diligent girls well into the next decade.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's a harmless movie that could have been even better if they made Michael Keaton the main star.
Often drags and falls flat as a stale, contrived drama and painfully unfunny comedy with forgettable, cardboard characters.
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.
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.
After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
It has no idea what it wants to be; as a result, it gets nothing right.
Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
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