Smart, witty and truthful comedy drama, full of humour and verve

MAVIS (Charlize Theron) is a successful but bored ghost writer of young adult fiction, faced with a void in her life.

When she learns that her old high school boyfriend Buddy (Patrick Wilson) and his wife have had a baby, she becomes obsessed with this and travels back to her Minnesota hometown under the guise of her writing, when in fact she thinks she can win him back.