What Will's Watching

Young Adult: Charlize Theron is Mavis, a self-centered, judegemntal  and immature ghost writer of a famous series of YA books. When her old flame announces his wife just had a baby, Mavis goes home and tries to win him back. Mavis' reasoning and motivations are ridiculous and her plan feels like it was hatched by a 16 year old. Along the way she meets old friends and non-friends, including a cripple brilliantly played by Patton Oswalt. Patrick Wilson is the clueless old flame, wrapped up in his nice suburban family life who has long moved on from his HS romance with Mavis. The final blow out is as horrifying as the viewer expects it to be. Paint by numbers but well executed. A movie about dealing with one's past. 3/4.