Storyline
Strait-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. Soon, Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted – but in the process finding her way to a surprising and exhilarating life and romance she never dreamed of having.
Directors
Cast
Michael Sheen, Paul Rudd, Dan Levy, Wallace Shawn, Tina Fey, Nat Wolff, Olek Krupa, Christopher Evan Welch, Rob Campbell, Lisa Emery, Lily Tomlin, Brian d'Arcy James, Ann Harada, Gloria Reuben, Ben Levin, Sarita Choudhury, Travaris Spears, Sonya Walger, Leigha Hancock, Elaine Kussack, Michael Genadry, Zachary Unger, Lynne Taylor, Mihran Slougian, Maggie Keenan-Bolger, Juliet Brett, John Brodsky, Camille Branton, Nadia Alexander
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Reviews
75
Admission, a likably breezy campus movie directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), is blissfully non-insulting.
63
Fey plays this inner-outer conflict well. But at her most wide-eyed and vulnerable, she still has trouble making a romance credible, even with Rudd, edgy comedy’s puppy dog of a leading man.
50
Actions do have their consequences, though, and Weitz doesn’t try to end things too tidily for their own good. Were only that he had succeeded in committing to one of those films over the other, then Admission might have been this year’s “Liberal Arts” rather than this year’s “Smart People.”
50
Deftly playing Tina Fey's feminist-icon mother, Lily Tomlin all but steals Admission, a knowing but uneven comedy about the neuroticism of the college-admission process on both sides of the equation.
50
The comedy feels forced as Fey works overtime to insert unnecessary zingers at the tail of every scene. If the cast weren’t so endearing, her actions could easily sour an audience on the whole experience, and Admission digs itself a hole only an ensemble this appealing can escape.
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