Acceptance

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Actors: Mae Whitman

Director: Sanaa Hamri

IMDB Rate: 5.1 out of 10 (97 votes)

Plot Summary:Acceptance is a movie about a high school student who use to be an overachiever name Taylor Rockefeller. Taylor is struggling her senior year trying to cope with the stress of applying to her dream college. Taylor parents are really close to getting a divorce which has made her life three times more stressful then it was at first. And with her mother pushing her to go to the best college where she can get a great education and find a great husband so that she will never end up unhappy like herself. But when Taylor decides to go to a low- ranked school that made it on the Top 50 best colleges book because of a computer typo. Her and her mother get into a huge argument about her future happiness. Taylor has no problem staying the optimistic kid she has been all four years of her high school experience, but when she sees her classmates taking the ACT 20 times, and walking, dressing and talking different she has no choice but to drop them all as friends. Picking up a odd behavior by stealing the neighborhoods mail, Taylor feels below herself. But with all the campus visits, SAT scores, and school applications Taylor and her friends try to remain sane during a very competitive process of the normal college admissions that most American families have to face. Coll. did a great job in writing this book the way she felt teenagers really stress about this college life. Taylor Rockefeller (Mae Whitman), has no relation to the other members in her family, who are known to be the famous Rockefeller. She is determined not to turn into a robot like the rest of her friends, that she begins this really awkward habitat of stealing her neighbors. Her parents are separated and her mother ( Joan Cusack) is putting so much pressure on her to pick the best school, where she can get a great education and find a great spouse as well. Nina Rockefeller ( Joan Cusack), a St. John-clad mother, who is estranged from her husband, nurtures a drinking problem and has pushed her daughter so hard to get into the best college based on academic excellence and spousal potential, that she is slicing her wrists. Maya ( Deepti Daryanani), is Taylors Indian friend, whos family wont accept anything less than her admittance to an Ivy School. But when Maya wants to become a poet instead of an Doctor like her mother, sister, and father that are very close to disowning her. Harry ( Jonathan Keltz), is Taylors ex-boyfriend, he recently changed his name in the movie to AP Harry. He decided that if he took every Advanced Placement test they have to offer, then he would break a world record and Harvard would have no choice but to choose him.