Young Adult (2011)

BBC Three, 11pm ★★★★

Jason Reitman’s wickedly dark comedy (by Diablo Cody, who also collaborated with him for Juno and Jennifer’s Body) flips the romcom on its head by giving us a modern, alcoholic, self-centred heroine – who is all too human. Charlize Theron is Mavis Gary, a divorced writer who moves back to her hometown to win back her high-school sweetheart… who just happens to be happily married.