Adult World
Where all your fantasies comes true…
Amy Anderson (Emma Roberts) is a naïve, awkward university graduate desperate to get her poetry career off of the ground. Saddled with debt and unemployed, she moves back in with her parents in her seemingly bland upstate New York hometown. When her car is stolen and her parents cut her off financially, she begrudgingly accepts the only job she can find; working the cash register at Adult World – the local sex shop owned by a frisky elderly couple and staffed by diva transvestite Rubio and sweet local boy Alex. But Amy's true passion is poetry, and she is determined to become the protégé of reclusive writer Rat Billings (a hilarious John Cusack). Headstrong and defiant, Amy stumbles through her new life, finding out that inspiration can be found in the most improbable places.
Critic Reviews:
- " Adult World captures beautifully, and with a great deal of self-deprecating humor, what it's like to feel trapped in a place you think is too small to hold you. " – Stephanie Zacharek
- " A smart, incisive comedy about a recent college grad's booby-trapped immersion into real life. " – Gary Goldstein
- “Mr. Cusack’s sardonic, understated portrayal of Rat, who is not quite what he says he is, grounds the movie in a wistfully cynical realism.” – Stephen Holden