Admission (2013)

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption. Despite a talented cast 'Admission' fails to deliver both in script wise since the story is kinda boring and the characters are hollow but also the comedic parts are unfunny and weird and in the end it's a big disappointment of a movie.

Admission (2013): Dir: Paul Weitz / Cast: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn: Admission should not be granted to anyone with any common sense. This is a romantic comedy of sorts that stars Tina Fey as an admission counsellor at a university but the title really suggests the news of a son she gave up years ago and is reintroduced to in a shot of possible motherhood. Paul Rudd plays a missions type worker who travels about the world helping orphaned children and such. He contacts Fey with the belief that one of his schooled teens is her son. He desires to enrol him in the university for which she works in hopes that maybe she will take another crack at the mother thing despite the boy's lack of knowledge of it. This becomes very irritating especially with humour that hits inappropriate timing. Fey is a fine comic talent but she is horrible here playing a character who is not only unlikeable but a decision she makes in the conclusion destroys any sympathy for her. Rudd is equally bad as a good hearted sort yet totally lacking in social standing. One poorly aimed joke regards him throwing a horse ornament on the floor. Other roles are also pathetic with not even Lily Tomlin as Fey's crass mother able to surrender any humour. Director Paul Weitz seems to be creating a female version of his About a Boy and floundering badly at it. This is the worst example of his talent. It is as if he was heavy drinking during the shoot. Its message regards a re-introductory to motherhood despite a childless lifestyle. The result is a film that should be admitted to a trash bid. Score: 2 / 10

Admission was rated rape-free by rapefreemovies. It does not include any mention, attempt or fact of sexual violence.Review: I wasn't expecting much from this comedy, but I was positively surprised in the end. Let's face it: there is nothing new there. Though the characters are true and attaching, and the story has some unexpected turns. This is the kind of movie you like because it just makes you feel so good, nice and positive! The movie also talks about education, and how today kids are formatted, and any kind of different intelligence underestimated, which I haven't seen often actually.

Admissions officer Portia is caught off-guard when she makes a visit to an alternative high school overseen by John Pressman. He has come to the conclusion that Jeremiah, his most gifted student, might well be the son that Portia gave up for adoption. Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted, but in the process finding a surprising and exhilarating life and she never dreamt of.....A film starring Fey and Rudd, would expected to be a funny, not too serious time to be had at the cinema, and from the one sheet, and the trailer, you would be forgiven if you thought you would get an Apatow light style comedy.Now while it's by no means a bad film, it's a pretty dark and at times, quite a depressing film to watch.Fey plays the woman who has literally everything go wrong for her that could possibly go wrong for her in the context of the narrative, and although it's common for this to happen in a romantic comedy to begin with, after a while, it makes for a pretty depressing character.Rudd plays the same character that makes him so likable, and here, he's on autopilot, but fine.The funniest parts of the film are the recurring joke featuring Sheen thinking that Fey is upset because he has dumped her, the comedy old man with the funny accent, and Lily Tomlin as the token special guest star.It's nothing new, but it passes the time, but it is clear to see why it bombed so badly.