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Little Darlings.(Adventureland)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker
Adventureland' s Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart make young love feel grown-up. John Powers reviews.
Movies about summer romance are like old standards in musicthe trick is to make them seem fresh. Set in 1987 Pittsburgh, Adventureland offers a tender spin on the story of a naive college grad trying to become worldly enough to win the girl of his dreams. Jesse Eisenberg is hyperarticulate James Brennan, who, to pay his way through Columbia's Journalism School, takes a summer job at Adventureland, a crumbling amusement park with crooked games, goofy rides, and a resident Lothario (Ryan Reynolds). Like everyone else there, James starts to regressuntil he meets his alluring, tart-tongued co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), who's sophisticated in ways he's never imagined.
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