Admission

LOVED IT! QUIRKY AND CHARMING
I loved this film. It was a complete and total surprise. Tina Fey and Paul Rudd have incredible chemistry. Lily Tomlin steals every scene she's in. I found it funny and very moving. The film was marketed all wrong like it was a comedy but it was much more than that. I think the male dominated critics really gave it a hard time or had the total wrong idea of what the film was when they sat down to review it. It's really an indy film. I truly believe it will have a bigger life on DVD and on pay cable has people discover it's quirky charm. See this film. It's delightful.

It's mistitled as a rom-com.
As I watched this flick, I said, "I think lots of women over the age of 35 will enjoy this." If reviews have been critical, it's becaus viewers were expecting a yuck-yuck fest and this is not it. This film was about issues that affect women as they age. Did they throw away their lives to their careers? Did their mothers raise them poorly but yet want to be critical of them? Is it better to tell the ones you love truths or lies? Do I relocate or do I stay put, and what if my child disagrees with me? And most importantly for me: WHY DIDN'T THIS DAMNED IVY LEAGUE DEGREE MAKE ALL MY DREAMS COME TRUE!?!?!? To me, the biggest dynamic was not romantic; the vibe between Tina and Paul wasn't really that important. The main tensions come from the trio of parent-child schisms. This reminded me of Steven Martin's "Parenthood" in some ways. I couldn't sit through that "Secret Ya-Ya Whatever." However, this reminded me of the flick with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. If you know how...

Non-Spoiler - Nice, but not exceptional ... waitlist it
Admission is a new romantic comedy featuring two seriously successful comedic actors, Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. Both are extremely likeable in most everything they are in, and are usually very funny. In this instance, while they each have moments of laughter, it was lighter on the humor than I expected, and heavier on the weighty emotion. This caught me by surprise.

Tina Fey works in the Admissions department of Princeton University, and leads a very settled existence, even carries on a boring relationship, and is content. Paul Rudd is a globe-trotting do-gooder (think a one man Peace Corps) who runs a school for now, but can't seem to stay in one place for long. When Rudd contacts Tina Fey regarding an exceptional student, each of their lives become more complicated. And humor, but not quite hilarity, ensues.

I don't have a huge issue with the fact that I feel like I've seen the storyline before, but with slight alterations.... I expect that in a Rom-Com...

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