When her impeccably pre-planned life plan begins to unravel, aspiring book editor Ryden Malby wonders if she’ll ever live up to her own high expectations in Post Grad, a wry and honest look at life after college. According to the Wall Street Journal, college graduates are entering the toughest labour market in over 30 years and like many real-life grads Ryden will have her world turned upside down. With a little help from the overbearing family whose warm embrace she is trying desperately to escape, she comes to learn the true meaning of success.

With a shiny new English degree in hand, young overachiever Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) thinks that success is inevitable. Fresh out of college and ready to take Los Angeles by storm, she has her whole life figured out, starting with a promising job at a top publishing firm and a spacious new loft apartment far from her loving, but chaotic, suburban upbringing. When she loses out of her dream job and her car breaks down, she is faced with the reality of today’s job market in one of the longest recessions in recent history. With no way to pay rent on the loft or anywhere else, she is forced to move back home.

Unfortunately life with her fractious family is not part of Ryden’s post-college game plan. Her father Walter (Michael Keaton) is an impulsive schemer who keeps trying to distract her from her career path with his own harebrained ideas, while her mother Carmella (Jane Lynch) is all too happy to have her baby girl back in the nest. Ryden’s oxygen-toting, chain-smoking grandmother Maureen (Carol Burnett) is preoccupied with planning her own funeral and quirky baby brother Hunter (Bobby Coleman) prefers to communicate through his sock puppet-alter ego, Larry.

Her rapid descent from college superstar to post-grad washout has opened her eyes to a whole new world of intriguing possibilities as she begins to realise that the road to happiness may take a completely different route than the one she had so carefully planned.

Classification PG