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Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in 'Admission'

( PG-13 ) ( Monitor Movie Guide )

Tina Fey is sharply funny on TV and on the page, but she and Rudd are working with hackneyed material in 'Admission.'

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Tina Fey (l.) and Paul Rudd (r.) star in 'Admission.'
  • By Peter Rainer Film critic

Tina Fey is so smart, sharp, and funny in her television work and on the page that it remains a mystery to me why she continually cancels herself out as a movie actress, most pointedly in 鈥淭he Invention of Lying鈥� and 鈥淒ate Night.鈥�

In Paul Weitz鈥檚 鈥淎dmission,鈥� she plays Portia, a Princeton admissions counselor who becomes a crusader for an unlikely but precocious candidate from an alternative high school run by Paul Rudd鈥檚 John. (The boy is very well played by Nat Wolff.) Granted, this is not automatic laugh-riot material, nor should it be, but didn鈥檛 Fey recognize how hackneyed it all is? Does being a movie star mean blanding out everything that makes you special? Grade: C- (Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual material.)

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