Thursday, June 20, 2013

Admission (2013) [14/50]





Language: English

Cast: Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd.

Story: A Staff on the admissions committee at Princeton finds out that an applicant might be the son she had given up for adoption years ago and struggles with the admission decision.

Screenplay and direction: The direction is okay and screenplay is good.

Performances: Tina Fey is amazing, and I have always been a fan, in the romantic scenes however she seems out of her element. Paul Rudd is great; the rest of the cast plays their part well.

Interesting: Even tough it stars Paul Rudd and Tina Fey the movie is not a comedy but a drama, and for a drama it has more than sufficient comedy.

USP:  It’s not a head ache trying to hard comedy, sometimes funny.

Downside: Expectations of comedy due to the lead actor’s reputation may depress the audience, the premise itself is not very inreseting, not many care for the admission process of universities.

Verdict: The movie is a decent attempt at drama by the two actors, unfortunately its nothing special. I personally felt a bit disappointed but all in all it was not too bad. The comedy rolls in on its own, nothing forced, but too little to keep the movie from dragging. The main premise according to me is the real killer, having said that, the movie was respectable. They should have let Fey write the dialogues or even the story. 6/10

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