Post Grad 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Ryden Malby, who has had her life carefully planned out since she was eleven years old, prepares to graduate from college with a bachelor’s degree in English, albeit during the late-2000s recession, having planned her academic life since she was in high school to get a college scholarship. At the graduation ceremony, Ryden’s family arrives late, causing a commotion. In addition to her optimistic father Walter, who wants to do everything by himself, her mother Carmella, who carefully administrates the short resources of the household, and younger brother Hunter, who aspires to race in a boxcar derby, her eccentric grandmother Maureen arrives, accompanied by her ever-present oxygen tank.

Ryden’s longtime rival, Jessica Bard, gives the graduation speech and then Ryden and her family go out to celebrate, accompanied by Ryden’s best friend, Adam Davies, who has had passionate feelings for Ryden since they met during their freshman year. Adam has applied to law school at Columbia, but is undecided between a career in music or studying law. Meanwhile, Ryden reveals to her family that she has an interview scheduled the following week for her dream job as an assistant editor at the prestigious publishing company Happerman and Browning in Los Angeles, and that she has even found a fabulous loft that she plans to rent.

En route to the job interview, Ryden gets her car into a collision with a truck and when the driver departs without giving her his insurance information, she is forced to walk to Happerman and Browning. Upon arriving, disheveled and stressed, she is directed to a waiting area filled with other applicants. When Ryden is finally called in to interview and asked why she desires the job, she eloquently explains that she has been preparing for this opportunity for her entire life and would never imagine herself doing anything else, after which the interviewer awkwardly thanks her for her time.

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