
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) 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 (Paul Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), 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, p... (Full plot summary below)
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Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) 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 (Paul Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), 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.
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| AALBC.comKam WilliamsAn alternately comical and thought-provoking cautionary tale that's every bit as hilarious as it is sobering. |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderWith Fey's name attached, you expect more than yet another Hollywood film that puts an over-eager career woman in her place. |
| Spectrum (St. George, Utah)Bruce BennettIt isn't a world beater, but this gentle and heartwarming understated comedy had better not be Rudd and Fey's last as co-stars. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekMuch less clever than one might hope, a film based on a couple of slender premises that earn an occasional chuckle but little more. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)"Admission" probably shouldn't work, but intelligent dialogue and Tina Fey's enormous likability earn it a passing grade. |
| IFC.comRick MarshallIt's not often a film comes along that's just as much fun to watch with your parents as it is to watch with your partner or friends, but Admission is just that sort of film. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. Means[Weitz] wrings out solid humor from Portia's comic struggles to balance her professionalism with her newly unearthed maternal instincts. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderOverstays its welcome before petering out unremarkably. |
| SlateDana StevensI found myself curiously willing to overlook Admission’s weaknesses, or even to reinterpret them as strengths — couldn’t those inconclusive endings be seen as a refreshingly un-rom-com-like embrace of life’s open-endedness and complexity? |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAdmission, a likably breezy campus movie directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), is blissfully non-insulting. |