A surprisingly nasty film about a nasty character, who - surprisingly for a mainstream film - neither gets her come-uppance nor is redeemed. Charlize Theron plays the author of young adult fiction who is all but washed-up...her series is remaindered in mall bookshops and won't be continued. And then she gets the idea of going back to her small town (which she despises, having moved to the big city of Minnieapolis) and reconnecting with her teenage love, even though he is now married and with a new baby.
She runs into people she used to know, and it's obvious that she was really horrible as a teenager, but she has no insight into her behaviour either then or now. She continues to behave horribly, tries to break up the teen-lover's marriage, fails and goes back to Minnieapolis, having crashed into a few lives and road-signs on the way. Like I said, unusually nasty...I hate Hollywood saccharine, but the opposite wasn't enjoyable either.
Watched on Netflix.
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