Admission poster

Admission (2013)

Directed by Paul Weitz · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring Tina Fey, Ann Harada, Ben Levin, Dan Levy, Maggie Keenan-Bolger, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd, Wallace Shawn, Elaine Kussack, Christopher Evan Welch, Michael Genadry, Juliet Brett, John Brodsky, Camille Branton, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Sheen, Ken Barnett, Nat Wolff, Travis Bratten, Tanisha Long, Nadia Alexander, Karen Pham, Travaris Spears, Lily Tomlin, Rob Campbell, Sonya Walger, Olek Krupa, Roby Sobieski, Lauren Schaffel, Brian Charles Johnson, Lipica Shah, Jarod Einsohn, Caliaf St. Aubyn, Zita Geoffroy, Laura Jordan, Zachary Unger, Lisa Emery, Mihran Slougian, Lynne Taylor, Brian d'Arcy James, Leigha Hancock, Sarah Quinn, Jason Blaj, David Simins, Brad Wilson, Ryan McCarty, Krishna Choudhary, Ricky Jones, Thomas Merckens, Alan Robert Southworth, Chris Bronwell, Chris Palermo, Anthony Capers, Julia Faye Fisher, Gameela Wright, James P. Anderson, Tina Benko, Matthew Broadley, Vanessa Carter, Alix Cross, Jonathon Culver, Giullian Yao Gioiello, Brandon Lee Harris, Alice Litvak, Nicole Maggio, Alexis Molnar, Meaghan Monaghan, Rachel Moss, Ismaelpeter Casillas Nelson, Edward Sass III, Danielle Senk, Natasha Tax, Barbara Vincent, Joshua Hinck

IHBM7 IMDb5.7 RT37% MC48 Trakt62% TMDb5.6Good

Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

My review · Reviewed 12/17/2024

This is a sweet film, and probably overlooked by many who were seeking out another mediocre rom-com. The first twenty minutes are painful, but then the movie has some pretty great character development. Fey and Rudd have fantastic chemistry, and it was pretty satisfying to see two really good actors (and a fantastic supporting cast) deliver a really good second half of the movie. Most importantly, I think they really stuck the landing. I thought that I had it all figured out, and... I didn't.