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In the comic “Post Grad,” Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) brushes off the affections of Adam Davies (Zach Gilford), but why? |
“Post Grad” is an innocuously pleasant romantic comedy lifted from the constraints of conventionality by the charismatic Alexis Bledel and a comical supporting cast of Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch and Carol Burnett.
Bledel, the young star of the late, great TV series “The Gilmore Girls,” plays a post-grad woman with the unlikely name of Ryden Malby. Ever since she was an overachieving girl, Ryden has carefully planned her future, right down to getting her first job at a prestigious L.A.-based publications firm.
Right away, post-grad life doesn’t go as expected.
A big truck plows into her car, leaving her stranded on the way to her big job interview.
When she arrives at the firm, all perky and peppered with proper personality, she discovers she’s competing with half the graduating classes of a zillion colleges.
Then, horror of horrors! She loses her dream job to that awful Jessica Bard (Catherine Reitman), the same self-absorbed woman who stole the valedictorianship from Ryden back in school. (Read more…)