Admission (2013)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 119
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 68
Admission has a pair of immensely likable leads in Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, but it wastes them on a contrived (and clumsily directed) screenplay.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 28
Admission has a pair of immensely likable leads in Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, but it wastes them on a contrived (and clumsily directed) screenplay.
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Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Paul Rudd (This is 40) are paired for the first time on-screen in Admission, the new comedy/drama directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz (About a Boy, In Good Company), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness. Every spring, high school seniors anxiously await letters of college admission that will affirm and encourage their potential. At Princeton University, admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is a gatekeeper evaluating thousands
Cast
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Tina Fey
Portia Nathan -
Paul Rudd
John Pressman -
Nat Wolff
Jeremiah -
Michael Sheen
Mark -
Wallace Shawn
Clarence -
Gloria Reuben
Corinne -
Travaris Meeks-Spears
Nelson -
Lily Tomlin
Susannah -
Ann Harada
Mrs. Lafont -
Ben Levin
Junior Lafont -
Daniel Joseph Levy
James -
Maggie Keenan-Bolger
Girl on Tour -
Elaine Kussack
Abby -
Christopher Evan Welch
Brandt -
Michael Genadry
Ben -
Juliet Brett
Praying Applicant -
John Brodsky
Smug Kid -
Camille Branton
Gymnast -
Sarita Choudhury
Rachael -
Freddie Francis
Admissions Counselor -
Travis Bratten
Quest Student -
Tanisha Long
Quest Student -
Nadia Alexander
Quest Student -
Karen Pham
Quest Student -
Rob Campbell
Richard -
Sonya Walger
Helen -
Olek Krupa
Polokov -
Roby Sobieski
Makeout Guy -
Lauren Anne Schaffel
Student at Party -
Brian Charles Johnson
Student at Party -
Lipica Shah
Student at Party -
Jarod Einsohn
Keg Guy -
Caliaf St. Aubyn
Keg Guy's Friend -
Zita-Ann Geoffrey
Tour Group Mom -
Laura Jordan
Woman -
Sarah Quinn
Young Mother -
Jason Blaj
Supermarket Kid -
Zachary Unger
Jeremiah (8 Years Old) -
Lisa Emery
Mrs. Pressman -
Mihran Shlougian
Jeremiah's Dad -
Lynne Taylor
Jeremiah's Mom -
Brian d'Arcy James
Christopher Flynn -
Leigha Handcock
Yulia Karasov -
David Simins
A Capella Singer -
Brad Wilson
A Capella Singer -
Ryan McCarty
A Capella Singer -
Krishna Choudhary
A Capella Singer -
Ricky Lee Jones
A Capella Singer -
Thomas Merckens
A Capella Singer -
Alan Robert Southworth
A Capella Singer -
Chris Brownell
A Capella Singer -
Chris Palermo
A Capella Singer -
Anthony Capers
Jeremiah's Buddy -
Julia Faye Fisher
Agency Receptionist -
Gameela Wright
Woman in Adoption Agenc...
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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (68)
The many strands of this amiable yet overstuffed romantic comedy don't hang together, though each, on its own, has a modest charm.
Top CriticWhat 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.
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.
Granted, this is not automatic laugh-riot material, nor should it be, but didn't Fey recognize how hackneyed it all is?
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.
You'll be glad you enrolled.
It isn't a world beater, but this gentle and heartwarming understated comedy had better not be Rudd and Fey's last as co-stars.
On entering adulthood.
A running theme of parenthood, by nature or nurture, extends "Admission" beyond its broader comedy of mismatched-or missing-romantic partners, sight gags and punch lines.
Fey's usual self-deprecating wit and charm only sporadically rise above the plot mechanics.
Everywhere you see Tina Fey she is hilarious - except in this movie.
Admission never gives its world-class players the opportunity to do anything but sit on the sidelines while the film goes in circles, trying to find a consistent tone without ever getting out of its own way.
[T]he cards are stacked so heavily for the eventual winning side that Portia doesn't have to grow or change to switch sides; she just has to open her eyes.
The script was adapted from a novel but I can't imagine the book (or the characters in it) being this un-interesting.
So both Liz Lemon and Tina Fey got their wish. Except Liz's costs you nothing: the Grizz sitcom isn't real or asking for 100 minutes of your life. Fey's wish resulted in this movie, this dull, terrible, lifeless movie. The one where she talks to a cow.
Career women, you will finds happiness by embracing your maternal instincts. Parents and high-school students, you are right to obsess over college. Tina Fey, continue your domestication process. These are among the depressing affirmations of 'Admission.'
A comedy, but a serious comedy.
Fey and Rudd can't save college-bound comedy
While the idea of teaming Fey and Rudd sounds like a feasible one, the reality is that all this low-simmer niceness results in a movie that has absolutely no wit, bite or -- most shockingly -- moments of hilarity.
What it [arguably] lacks in passion, Admission makes up for nicely in heart with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd at their light dramatic best.
A rather bland comedy that never rises above its sitcom premise.
Fey is flawless as a stickler for rules, order, and over-rehearsed patter whose desperation to maintain an even keel at all times results in puckishly inappropriate behavior when things start to fall apart
A comedy that's not especially funny, and a satire of the college admissions culture that isn't especially incisive
Admission squanders its most interesting aspects, flattening them out into a tidy, dull narrative instead of running with their more outlandish aspects, or focusing deeper on the pain at the heart of the characters.
Audience Reviews for Admission
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- Portia Nathan: A 'B' in Physics? And you didn't take AP Chem.
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