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Admission
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.
6 April 1969, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
7 June 1996, Bronx, New York, USA
30 December 1929, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 16, 1993 in Westchester, New York, USA
March 08, 2017
Because all these narrative threads are presented with equal emphasis, no single one feels fully developed. And Fey and Rudd's screen time together is rushed; audiences don't get the chance to become invested in their characters.June 21, 2016
It is neither a broad comedy nor a dopey rom-com; it's actually, surprisingly enough, a seriocomic drama in something resembling the Alexander Payne mold, a slightly eccentric examination of flawed people doing their very best.March 22, 2013
What is most distressing about Admission is that it serves as further evidence that Tina Fey, despite her dominance of the small screen, has not yet mastered the big one.November 05, 2013
A romantic dramedy about a passionate erudite oddball woman with her own life? Hooray!March 22, 2013
Granted, this is not automatic laugh-riot material, nor should it be, but didn't Fey recognize how hackneyed it all is?April 01, 2013
The many strands of this amiable yet overstuffed romantic comedy don't hang together, though each, on its own, has a modest charm.March 22, 2013
If Fey ends up making movies as good as this one over the next few years, television's loss will have been cinema's gain, for real.March 22, 2013
This is certainly an interesting idea, though the movie is badly handicapped by Fey, who must venture beyond her usual snippiness into scenes of genuine poignancy and proves unequal to the task.November 11, 2016
Admission fizzles out to an almost aggressive extent and finally does conclude on as anticlimactic a note as one could envision...January 03, 2014
At the heart of the problem with this movie are matters of logic and cogency.April 28, 2015
Photographed in fifty shades of beige, Admission is the blandest film I've seen in months.