【】is about a girl becoming a woman.

It's rare in Hollywood to find authentic, layered stories about multifaceted women, but the good news is, it's getting less rare. A notable case on the subject is the filmography of screenwriter Diablo Cody, the scribe behind 2007's。 Juno 。Juno 。(her first film, for which she won an Oscar), 2011's。Young Adult。 , and — opening this weekend — the remarkable。Tully 。
.。 Cody's work, particularly in collaboration with director Jason Reitman, comprises raw examinations of womanhood in its various stages. In Cody's own words,Juno。 is about a girl becoming a woman. 。is about a girl becoming a woman.。 Young Adult 。is about a woman refusing to grow up. And 。
Tully 。 is about a mother of three transitioning not only into parenthood, but middle age.。"This is obviously the most personal, because I was able to actually channel my experiences as a mom into it," Cody told Mashable of 。
Tully。in a phone interview. "I just wanted to honestly depict the sort of anxiety and exhaustion and intensity of that experience — and the love, because I’ve seen movies about overwhelmed moms before, but I think it’s always kind of done as a comedic trope... There is a grittier side to it. You have to write what you know, and that’s where I was coming from." 。SEE ALSO:New aggregator CherryPicks will highlight female reviewers and women in film 。


Tully 。 stars Charlize Theron as Marlo, a woman who's taking care of her newborn and two other children; running her household; and likely coping with postpartum depression. Things change drastically with the arrival of night nurse Tully (Mackenzie Davis) — and Marlo starts to feel like her old self again.。Credit: focus features。
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Cody has been in Hollywood for roughly a decade since 。 Juno 。was produced. In that time, she's seen a steady uptick in the demand for female-driven stories and more women behind the camera.。
Juno 。
, having entered the entertainment industry after working as a stripper. 。
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"All I want to do is support people who have been through shit."。
While her background may have scandalized her new peers, Cody recalls that she was treated as a writer in those rooms, first and foremost. 。 "I had this calling card that was 。"I had this calling card that was。
Juno 。 ," she said. "I came to Hollywood with that script and people were excited about it from the get-go, so I always had that in my back pocket. No one could just dismiss me as a stripper because I was a stripper with a property that people wanted to produce." 。Credit: focus features。 Over the past 10 years, Cody has developed a rhythm with Reitman, a male director who's invested in telling stories about women and telling them right. 。"One day I asked him, ‘Why are you so nice to me?
"One day I asked him, ‘Why are you so nice to me?’" Cody recalls of her time on set for。
Juno。 . "And he said, ‘Because I’ve never been a teenage girl.’ He understood that he could not make that movie without me. There are not a lot of directors that would feel that way. And he’s still like that." 。With 。
With。Tully。
, both get to work once more with Charlize Theron. Theron also starred in。

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