YOUNG ADULT /A New York Kind of Day

While there is no question that Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt deliver brilliant performances this is not a likeable film.  In fact I thought it plodded along given that the main character is someone you really have to work to care about.  Think of the nasty prom queen (if you grew up in a small town or suburb) who goes off to a big city (Minneapolis????) and pretends to be a successful writer (ghost writer) who is actually a narcissistic infantile alcoholic.  While one could wish that this happens to the girl who made our lives miserable in high school when it actually does it's so predictable and  redundant that it's boring.  And that's how I felt... bored.  She returns to her hometown to steal her H.S. boyfriend from his wife and their newborn baby girl.  While there she befriends the H.S. victim who was brutalized and left impaired by the town jocks.  Of course she manages to have sex with him before she leaves.  I do not recommend this film.  If you're curious take it out on DVD.

The day was otherwise a good one.  I walked over the 1st Street Bridge, shopped at Urban Outfitters, soloed the film and walked back over the bridge.  That's a New York kind of day only with much warmer weather in December.