Synopsis: Zach Braff is a highly medicated depressive who returns home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral. While home, he reconnects to high school friends and finds love in Natalie Portman, an afflicted young girl who sympathises with Braff's hardships. It is when Braff stops taking his medication that he starts to see life clearly and takes advantage of opportunities that come his way. Lesson: Don't get stuck in the same routines. By no means does this equate to not taking prescribed mediation, but if you open yourself up to a different way of living your life, life may throw some good things at you. Don't let the present dull your future and don't be afraid to feel.
19. Bachelorette (2012)
Synopsis: Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Isla Fisher play bridesmaids to Rebel Wilson, their overweight high school friend. The night before the wedding, the three find they've destroyed Wilson's wedding dress and spend the night trying to fix the mistake, while also coming to terms with who they have become since high school. Lesson: Nothing is undeserved. If someone else gets a promotion, it's because they deserved it. If someone else gets engaged, it's because they deserved to. If you aren't getting what you want in life, but everyone around you is, it is because they worked harder than you did. It is a miserable person whose envy leads to the destruction of another's happiness.
18. Young Adult (2011)
Synopsis: Charlize Theron is a young-adult fiction writer who travels home under the guise of a book signing with the hidden agenda of getting her high school boyfriend back. When she sees he is happily married and expecting his first child, she begins to spiral into a fantasy world where she can win him back and they can be as happy as they used to be. Lesson: All children grow up, except one. That one is not you. It's Peter Pan. Everyone has to grow up and learn to respect other people's boundaries. What was once acceptable may no longer be and you need to be able to adapt. Sure, marching to the beat of your own drum is a spectacular trait to have, but not at the expense of someone else's life.
I am a college graduate of Penn State with two bachelors in the arts. When I'm not writing or performing, I am an SFX make-up artist for local up and coming films in the Houston area. I love horror movies, James Spader, and will watch anything suggested to me.
