Out This Friday: Post Grad

It was just a matter of time before we got a movie less than discreetly depicting today’s economic situation and how it affects, specifically here, the college graduate. Gone are the days of graduating from college and moving on to your own place. Competing with laid off experienced executives for a vastly reduced number of jobs, college grads are left with no choice but to return home until a prospect comes along. After four years of freedom, it’s back to Mom, Dad, and maybe even a curfew.

Movies are supposed to be able to simultaneously provide an escape from our mundane problems as such and show these very problems, albeit involving prettier people, so we can relate. Friday, August 21, recent grads will relate to Alexis Bledel in Post Grad, when the considerably under-promoted comedy hits movie theaters. The trailer makes it look like a sweet, hokey little film, one that they’ll replay on ABC Family for years to come. But reviews from insiders who have seen the film imply the film is more, and is delightfully quirky and offbeat. It’s only fitting, since in order for a film on this topic to be successful, it must be funny enough to cheer us comiserators up, while honest and dark enough to be realistic and convince us Alexis, well, Ryden, is actually going through this. So, maybe this film will accomplish the feat of accurately portraying the nerves of interviews, the despair and frustration of seemingly endless unemployment, and the anxiety of moving back home, all why allowing us to see the humor in it all.

The film also stars Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett - haven’t seem them in a while. Burnett especially should be a treat. So, let’s be surprised together and let this film show us it’s not the fluff from the trailers!

August 17th, 2009 by Courtney Iseman | Posted in Movie News | (35)