Post Grad follows a fairly predictable trajectory as recent college graduate Ryden (Alexis Bledel) discovers that life after school isn't so much under her control. When she fails to get her dream job and is forced to live at home with her perfectly normal abnormal family, her confidence in herself and her dreams begins to waver. Most of this is handled well and convincingly, though I kind of felt like Michael Keaton as Ryden's Dad was attracting way too much attention to himself. What really attracted me to the movie, though, was the romantic sub-plot between Ryden and her best (and as far as we can tell, only) friend Adam, who has clearly been in love with Ryden for years and clearly dealt with her "just friends" response for just as long. There were some really good juicy slivers of romance in there, but it rarely got as intense as it was suggesting it might. So while I was finally choked up a little at the end, I still felt like some really great potential was squandered on less interesting sub-sub-plots involving Dad.Still, Alexis is good and I am always happy watching her do... whatever.
