Adult World (2013)
Storyline
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
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Cast
Emma Roberts, Reed Birney, Cloris Leachman, Cloris Leachman, Evan Peters, Chris Riggi, John Cusack, Armando Riesco, Evelina Turen, Scott Coffey, Shannon Woodward, Justin Nappi, John Cullum, Manu Gargi, Jo Mei, Leah Lauren, Jerry Adler, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Patricia Squire, Darin Scott, Summer Shelton, Joshua Barry Ward, William P. Szczech, Becky Cerio, Edward Ellison, Kyo Moon, Marshico Robinson, Alexander Edinger, Avery Pastella, Bill D'Agostino, Shawn-Ray Dalinsky, Niki Dellios, Jordan Glaski, Arthur Sicilia
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Reviews
90
Village Voice
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.
70
The Dissolve
Every scene featuring Amy and Rat together is a giddy marvel of kinetic energy, with Roberts and Cusack seemingly in competition to determine which of them can make their character more unsympathetic.
63
There’s nothing deep in this script, and the delayed romance, between real-life lovers Roberts and Evan Peters (of “American Horror Story”) sets off no sparks. The characters are sort of a grab bag of “types.”
63
Adult World proceeds by fits and starts, but fans of Cusack won’t want to miss his performance as the petulant poet, whose resistance is inevitably worn down by his persistent fan.
60
The story beats are as familiar as they come, and there are a few halfhearted stabs at redeeming Roberts’s clueless character when it would have been better to push her feeble-mindedness to Anna Faris–esque extremes.
