Author: Tina Fey

Format: AC-3

Release Date: 09-07-2013

Details: Product Description Tina Fey ( Date Night, 30 Rock) and Paul Rudd ( I Love You Man, Knocked Up) star in Admission, the new film directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz ( About a Boy), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness. Straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. Soon, Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted -- but in the process finding her way to a surprising and exhilarating life and romance she never dreamed of having. ---------- “ADMISSION” Tina Fey (“Date Night,” “30 Rock”) and Paul Rudd (“I Love You Man,” “Knocked Up”) star in Paul Weitz’s Admission (OSCARS® nominee for “About a Boy “), a film about the surprising detours that fate takes us on the road to happiness. Portia Nathan, the tight-lipped admissions officer at Princeton University, is caught off guard when she pays a recruiting visit to an alternative school run by her former classmate, freethinker John Pressman (Rudd). Pressman suspects that gifted but atypical student Jeremiah (Nat Wolff) may be the son Portia secretly gave up for adoption years ago. Gradually, Portia begins to bend the rules in favor of Jeremiah, jeopardizing the life she thought she had always wanted, but in the process she will find a path to a life and a love story as surprising as it is intoxicating, that she has never known. never dreamed of living. Amazon.ca To describe Tina Fey's character in Admission as a "Liz Lemon type" wouldn't be completely accurate. Portia Nathan, her Princeton admissions officer, exhibits fewer nerd tendencies than Fey's 30 Rock producer, but her professional life also trumps her personal one. Though she has a longtime boyfriend (Michael Sheen), he treats her more like a pal than a partner, and her relationship with her radical mother (Lily Tomlin) has always been rocky, but on a visit to an alternative high school to recruit applicants , her staid world undergoes a profound shift. First, she meets educator John Pressman (Paul Rudd), a college acquaintance who has also struggled to distinguish himself from his family, and then she meets Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), a self-taught genius with poor grades and high test scores. John believes Jeremiah deserves a place at Princeton--and that he's the child she gave up for adoption 18 years before. Portia struggles to avoid favoritism, while giving Jeremiah a chance at an Ivy League education and convincing her boss (Wally Shawn) that she deserves to lead the admissions department over her passive-aggressive colleague (Gloria Reuben). To complicate matters further, she finds herself attracted to John, a single father with an adopted son. The conclusion combines the expected with the unforeseen, a trademark of In Good Company director Paul Weitz, who wrings more tears from Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel than laughs, but Fey keeps Portia sympathetic even as she makes a few moral miscalculations en route to a new and different future. --Kathleen C Fennessy

UPC: 065935594246

EAN: 0065935594246

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood