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Post Grad

Play trailer Poster for Post Grad PG-13 Released Aug 21, 2009 1h 29m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Recent college graduate Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has a grand plan: Find a fabulous apartment and land a job at a prestigious publishing house. However, her rival Jessica steals her dream job, and Ryden has to move back in with her weird family while she sorts out her life. A stack of rejection letters grows while she hangs out with her best friend (Zach Gilford) and her neighbor (Rodrigo Santoro), but if she is to gain traction in her life again, Ryden will have to make a new plan.
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A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.

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Cliff Doerksen Chicago Reader Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly. Jun 10, 2013 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian There's certainly a lot of material there but none of the comedy works in any way at all and Keaton is a dead zone at the centre of the film. Rated: 1/5 Jan 5, 2010 Full Review Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Vicky Jenson's attempt at a go-getting romcom is a tragic underachiever on the com front: the rent-a-quirk characters feel like a Little Miss Sunshine tribute act gone wrong. Rated: 1/5 Jan 5, 2010 Full Review Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Consider me among the crowd that didn't hate the film as I thought it was well made at the time. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …settles for cheesy observation of lives that seem somewhat lacking in real drama… Rated: 2/5 Jul 17, 2023 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Too safe to be memorable yet too entertaining to be completely forgotten. Rated: 2.0/4.0 Sep 20, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Munching M Very light hearted movie, although likely a result of its poor story line. Very predictable and not overly captivating. A few seemingly unnecessary plot deviations didn’t help either. Wouldn’t recommend watching unless wanting something on in the background. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review donnie m cute movie-nice to still have movies that that the whole family can watch Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/03/23 Full Review Cathy J It's kind of cute. It was fun seeing Carol Burnette, an old time favorite comedian of mine, and a fellow alumnus from Hollywood High. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/27/23 Full Review steve d Sort of a poor man's Gilmore Girls but Alexis Bledel does her normal fun performance. The central relationship didn't work at all for me. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I love Alexis. She tends to have a subtle humor in her roles, but this film was painful to watch. The film is so fragmented and lacks any true climax. I had to stop maybe three times as I was so bored. There's no build up to a new job, or her budding romance with her best friend. No excitement and no chemistry. There was no feeling of unity with the family. They were probably thinking that we'll just throw Carol Burnett in there for some comedic reprieve, but even her humor was dry and inspiring. I enjoy comedy, but I didn't laugh even one time with this one. One of the worst movies I've seen on Netflix this year. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. This movie is an embodiment of Murphy's Law and the fear of not having a job after college, with a "Guy Next Door" cliche mixed in. Immediately upon seeing the situation, there is an obvious conclusion. While Michael Keaton and Jane Lynch are almost always fun, they don't have a lot to do in this: they nail their small, small parts, but there is only so much they can do from that position. Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls") really carries the movie, and she does it well enough: she can certainly lead a movie, I just want to see it in something bigger and better than this. A lot of the movie is so generic that it almost feels like, "they'll get it" is written in the script. It took me about 20 minutest to realize its a college movie, not a high school movie, and it's heavily predictable. It's not that it's a bad movie by any stretch, but there just isn't anything special here, and I really think I'll be arguing with myself in a year about whether or not I've even seen this. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Recent college graduate Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has a grand plan: Find a fabulous apartment and land a job at a prestigious publishing house. However, her rival Jessica steals her dream job, and Ryden has to move back in with her weird family while she sorts out her life. A stack of rejection letters grows while she hangs out with her best friend (Zach Gilford) and her neighbor (Rodrigo Santoro), but if she is to gain traction in her life again, Ryden will have to make a new plan.
Director
Vicky Jenson
Producer
Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Jeffrey Clifford
Screenwriter
Kelly Fremon Craig
Distributor
Fox
Production Co
Montecito Picture Company
Rating
PG-13 (Sexual Situations|Brief Strong Language)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 21, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$6.4M
Runtime
1h 29m
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