Post Grad

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Post Grad

PG-13,

2009,

1h 29m,

Comedy

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9%

98 Reviews

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100,000+ Ratings

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27%

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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.

Critics Consensus

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

Jun 10, 2013

Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Jan 5, 2010

1/5

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.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Jan 5, 2010

1/5

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.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Aug 22, 2024

3.5/5

Consider me among the crowd that didn't hate the film as I thought it was well made at the time.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jul 17, 2023

2/5

…settles for cheesy observation of lives that seem somewhat lacking in real drama…

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 20, 2020

2.0/4.0

Too safe to be memorable yet too entertaining to be completely forgotten.

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Rey L

Jul 15, 2018

The narrative bookends are the only (decent) parts that focused on the squandered premise that instead swerved into an average conventionality after the petty painting of postgraduate reality - alongside with pointless plot points. It managed to be funny sporadically by occasion throughout the average, pointless bulk by charm from some of the cast, even if it's not enough to tip the questioned worth to its watchable favor. (C) (Full review TBD)

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Luke S

Apr 12, 2018

I'm not sure what is worse, the script or the direction. I cannot believe this is from the same writer as Edge of Seventeen. It's just a bunch of random vignettes, the story has no arc and the characters are one dimensional. Stakes...what are the stakes? There are none.

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Albus P

Jan 20, 2018

Definitely a guilty pleasure, mostly because I can kind of just see it as Rory Gilmore after college!

Draco S

Apr 7, 2011

It was an awful movie with lots of goofy stuff I hate but I knew it would be, so all good. I only watched it for my love for Alexis Bledel obviously for her being a Gilmore Girl. It was a 90 minutes pass time anyways.

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Vicky Jenson

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Ryden Malby

Zach Gilford

Adam

Rodrigo Santoro

David

Carol Burnett

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Michael Keaton

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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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