Admission (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet) (2013)

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.

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. My problem is that I've seen it done much better. While both Fey and Rudd are likeable, they seem to have little chemistry together. And there just weren't enough laughs to meet my expectations. Having said that, Lily Tomlin, who plays Tina's mother, is a force of comedy in this film.

I also found the ending unsatisfying. Nice enough, but over the course of many Rom-Coms, I expect more. If you want a little more drama in your comedy, maybe this is for you. While I liked it, it would definitely be a rental, and not a full-on purchase.

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This was neither romantic nor comedic. Your time would be better spent cleaning your toilet than watching Admission. Kept waiting for the movie to get better, instead it continued on a downhill spiral where it crashed and burned.

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Lily Tomlin plays a feminist who hangs a painting on her wall of a fish riding a bicycle to remind her that she doesn't need men. She once had a one night affair in order to have a child, not a husband. She gave birth to Tina Fey's character, Portia, who becomes successful in her work but notices that there's room for improvement in the nurturing, love and romance departments. Her plants die, is uncomfortable with children and doesn't see that her husband is having an affair. Back in college she got pregnant and gave her child up for adoption because she didn't believe that she would have been a good enough mother. With the help of some new friends, a pregnant cow and an accident on a form, Portia's gets admitted to, and discovers the joy of, love and connecting. She confronts her mother and breaks the spell.

A light romantic comedy/drama with a high school/university backdrop.

"I think my voracious reading came from a deep longing for something that was missing. I was searching for someone, for my story, to not feel so alone."

(The Eagles' song Desparado ".. let somebody love you .." chosen for the movie's tagline "Let Someone In.")

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I can not believe I watched the entire movie, I kept waiting for it to get better and it never happened!

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