Post Grad
2009
*½
Director: Vicky Jenson
Cast: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett, Bobby Coleman, Rodrigo Santoro
College graduate Ryden Malby fails to land a dream job in publishing and is forced to move in with her family. While she plots her next move, her best friend Adam hopes that she will one day feel the same way about him as he feels about her. Animation director Vicky Jenson's live-action debut is a lame and laugh-free romantic comedy. Kelly Fremon's script has a promising set-up, though. Its feisty heroine graduates just when the economy is in meltdown and she soon discovers that jobs are scarce even for a supremely qualified and irrepressibly enthusiastic candidate. However, this is as much as the film deals with reality. In the end, it tells an old-fashioned, empty-headed romantic story which points out that the place of a strong and smart woman is right next to her man. The wacky and exhausting shenanigans of the Malby family (father sells stolen belt buckles, grandmother buys her own coffin, and so on) bare no relevance to Ryden's big decisions, except to remind her why she needs to move out fast.
