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| The film's two stars are the whole show on this simple poster for Paul Weitz's Admission |
Portia Nathan is a Princeton admissions officer, who is competing for a raise while also interacting with the critical leader of a small school, who has a special student who is eying the prestigious university for his further studies.
Tina Fey (Martin & Orloff (2002)) is really funny here, and a fan of hers will enjoy most of Admission simply for her performance and several divine line deliveries in it. Lily Tomlin (The Pink Panther 2 (2009)) is also funny as Fey's feminist mother, as is Oleg Krupa (Blood Ties (2013)) as her Russian romantic interest. Paul Rudd (Wanderlust (2012)) is good as the critical school leader, although he isn't heading the fun factor in Admission.
The film has a problematic script: SPOILER A leading plot thread concerns Fey's realizing that Rudd's prodigy student (cute Nat Wolff (Stuck in Love (2012)) struggles with the part) must be her biological son, and it doesn't really work. Rudd is a single father to an adopted son from Africa himself here, and that almost completely unproblematic aspect also seems like something of an assertion. - Is the story mainly about Fey's finally taking a stance against her difficult mother, her situation with her strange job, about her discovering she may have a son, or is it about the educational system in general, her romance with Rudd, - or Rudd's sweet adopted son? (He is played by Travaris Spears (Freedom (2014)).
Karen Croner (One True Thing (1998)) has written the messy script, adapting the same-titled 2009 novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz (The White Rose (2006)), and great New-Yorker filmmaker Paul Weitz (Grandma (2015)) directed it. Admission gets by mainly due to Fey's hilarious main performance.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 13 mil. $
Box office: 18.6 mil. $
= Big flop
[Admission premiered 22 March (North America and the Philippines) and runs 108 minutes. Filming took place in New Jersey, including at Princeton University, and in New York, from May 2012 - ?. The film opened #5, behind fellow new releases The Croods and Olympus Has Fallen and holdover hits Oz the Great and Powerful and The Call to a 6.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it left the top 5 in its second week and grossed 18 mil. $ (96.8 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Russia with 343k $ (1.8 %) and the UK with 104k $ (0.6 %). The film's terrible international performances killed its chance of becoming theatrically successful. Weitz returned with Grandma, again with Tomlin. Admission is rotten at 38 % with a 5.5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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