ryanbartlett-870-746486 Charlize Theron takes on the role of playing a mother of three in need of a revival. She shines in the role as she always does of riding the emotional rollercoaster in being a mother. With highs few and far between, writer Diablo Cody really took a deep dive into motherhood, not fully capturing what it's like to be a mother, but more of a take on how hard it can really be. How tired moms get, and how many responsibilities that they have to keep up with. This is shown off with her take on the idea of a night nanny, a young woman who comes in and helps out where she needs help. Which really is just showing the problems of being maybe not an absent father, but definitely not a very helpful father. With this new night nanny Marlo, played by Theron, hopes to have her life's stress to go away and for peace to fall upon her. From al of the biopics that comes out these days, there was so many indicators that this would be a biopic of a mother, one that has surprisingly not been done very well in the past. However, Cody decides to go down a more theatrical and dramatic take. With the addition of Tully in her life, the story takes many different turns and travels further past bio-pic and more into a dramatic almost thriller.

deb-481-36108 While the movie passes off as a comedy about how difficult it can be as a new mother, in reality the film is nothing more than a commercial for divorce lawyers, alcohol sales and affirmative action.1) As with all hollywood moves these days (and during the last 30 years), the lead persons of authority, such as the president, the commander, the highest CEO or in the movies case "the principal", is, of course, black.I don't know why the 'leader' in all films MUST be of color, since whatever the mission is, it's not working. People of color are facing extreme population decline and we all know how much this "put people of color in power in the movies" agenda is helping the unfortunate living in Chicago (64 murders last weekend alone).2) The lead actress hires a night nanny to help care for her newborn and for some insane reason, decides to party hard with here using alcohol and drugs. Later the two leading ladies decide to have a lesbian love affair and denigrate the hard working husband providing for his wife and children.3) Lastly, in a drunken drugged up stupor, the leading lady crashes her car into a river, almost dies, and while laying in intensive care, STILL craves her new lesbian lovers companionship.IMO, this film is just another typical sick, twisted waste of time packed with has-been actresses and filled with demented messages.If that's your cup of tea - enjoy it. Me personally, I will intentionally never watch another movie staring Charlen Theron again.

castingqueenla9 If you like Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman and Ms. Theron you be better served renting Young Adult. This was sort of tedious to sit through. Performances were decent, direction good, but not one of Diablo's better works. Oh well.

Rosebud421 This is a beautifully acted, well written film. I believe some people who disliked it were expecting a comedy and therefore disappointed. It seems more a psychological drama about a woman who is so sleep deprived, stressed out and unsupported by her spouse, she actually creates a nanny (her younger self) to help her cope. I liked it, much as I liked the Sixth Sense. Somewhere along the line, you have to see the clues. Bruce Willis character is dead and Tully isn't real. Tully, we find out later in the film, is Marlo's maiden name, when she arrives she is much younger than expected, they hit it off like best pals despite the age difference, Marlo said she didn't want a stranger in the house at night and yet she trusts this young girl immediately, her husband doesn't even go downstairs to meet the nanny, when the car crashes into the water Marlo is alone in the car....there are endless clues that Tully doesn't exist. I hope the fine acting is remembered at Oscar time.