Admissions backdrop
Admissions poster
Trailer
Admissions
6.3
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1h 24m
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2004
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Released
Overview
A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems destined. Dad Harry spends all his time building model trains in the basement, while workaholic mom Martha depends on Evie to take care of her other daughter, developmentally challenged Emily. When she's not busy reading poetry to her sister Emily, Evie hangs out with James (Fran Kranz), the sensitive boy next door, whose romantic overtures prove too confusing to acknowledge. College also seems too daunting, so Evie deliberately blows one university interview after another in the hopes of staying at home as her sister's keeper. Meanwhile, Evie begins passing off her own poems as Emily's, fuelling the belief that her brain-damaged sister is actually a literary savant.

Cast
Lauren Ambrose poster
Lauren Ambrose
Evie Brighton
Amy Madigan poster
Amy Madigan
Martha Brighton
Christopher Lloyd poster
Christopher Lloyd
Steward Worthy
Fran Kranz poster
Fran Kranz
James Parks
Taylor Roberts poster
Taylor Roberts
Emily Brighton
Vernee Watson-Johnson poster
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Stanford Interviewer
Benjamin Pratt poster
Benjamin Pratt
Dartmouth Interviewer
Scott Adsit poster
Scott Adsit
Harvard Interviewer
John Savage poster
John Savage
Harry Brighton

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