Adult World (2013) Emma Roberts Evan Peters John Cusack Cloris Leachman

Recent college graduate Amy Anderson (Roberts) believes she s destined to be a great poet. Pressed by her parents, she takes a job at a small sex shop, Adult World, where she works with the manager Alex (Peters). When her car is stolen, her parents discover that she had canceled the car s theft insurance to afford submission fees for poetry journals, and kick her out. She moves in with a coworker before finding her own apartment. She meets one of her favorite poets, Rat Billings (Cusack), and talks her way into being his protégée by offering to clean his house. After some cajoling, Billings reads her poetry and offers to feature her work in an anthology he is working on.