Giveaway: Admission Prize Package

Summary: 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. 

Release Date: March 22 
Genre: Comedy 
Starring: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Wallace Shawn, Gloria Reuben, Nat Wolff, Traveris Spears, Lily Tomlin Directed By: Paul Weitz (“About a Boy,” “Being Flynn,” “In Good Company”) 
Written By: Karen Croner (“One True Thing”); Based on the novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz 

I am so excited about this movie and giveaway!!! A few years ago, I reviewed ADMISSION by Jean Hanff Korelitz and absolutely adored the novel! I loved Ms. Korelitz's writing style and I found the characters and the storyline to be incredibly intriguing. So what could be better than having a fantastic novel being made into a movie? Simple -- having Tina Fey and Paul Rudd starring in it!

Thanks to the fine folks at Big Honcho Media and Focus Features, I have an amazing Admission Prize Pack available to one lucky Booking Mama reader. Not only does it contain what's in the photo above (Folder, Notepad, Pen, Drawstring Bag, Toothbrush), but it also includes paperback copies of ADMISSION (movie tie-in edition) and BOSSYPANTS! To enter, just fill out the form below before March 26th at 11:59 p.m. ET. I will randomly select and notify the winner the following day. This contest is open to those of you with U.S. addresses only. Good luck!


If you'd like to learn more about the movie, check out these sites:

Visit the official website

Like Admission on Facebook                   

Watch the trailer on YouTube         

And of course you can always tweet using #Admission.

Summary: "Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."

For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission.

Admission is at once a fascinating look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past return and shake a woman's life to its core. -- Grand Central Publishing

Summary: Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.

She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

(Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!) - -Little Brown