Post Grad

Almost certainly the least offensive movie ever to bear a PG-13 rating, Post Grad casts Alexis Bledel as a recent college graduate—hence the title—whose spotless résumé and sunny disposition fail to land her the job of her dreams immediately after she leaves college. (The job of her dreams involves “the finest publishing house in all of L.A.,” which suggests that either the film takes place in an alternate universe where such a thing exists, or her character is dumber than her GPA suggests.) When she’s forced to move back home, neither the encouragement of her platonic-but-interested BFF (Zach Gilford) nor the support of her sitcom-wacky family keeps her from sinking into an extremely mild case of post-collegiate malaise, interrupted from time to time by inoffensive shenanigans and easily resolved crises. It all leads up to a climactic soapbox-derby race, possibly because the filmmakers thought a pie-eating contest or a square-dance competition might provide too much excitement for the audience’s more delicate members.