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Admission
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Admission (2013)

Romance Comedy
Rated PG-13
117 min.
Release Date
March 22, 2013
DVD Release Date
July 9, 2013 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Paul Weitz
Writer
Paul Weitz, Karen Croner
Cast
Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Gloria Reuben, Wallace Shawn, Lily Tomlin
Running Time
117 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual material

In the movie, Fey is portraying Portia Nathan, an admissions officer at Princeton University. Evaluating thousands of hopeful college students, the exceedingly bright and driven woman lives her life by the book, both at work and in her relationship with a faculty colleague, Mark (Sheen). Visiting an experimental New Hampshire high school submitting applicants, Portia is caught off guard when its co-founder John Halsey (Rudd) turns out to have attended college with her. She is... Full synopsis »

MOVIE REVIEW

The high-paced world of university admission offices is explored in Admission, which succeeds primarily in showing how there is nothing high-paced or particularly interesting about university admission offices. The inspired pairing of Tina Fey and Paul Rudd offered promise, but the end result is a harmless but shrugworthy effort. Full movie review »
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