Inside Higher Ed: "Accepted"

[asteriskea]

<p>Inside Higher Ed article “When Movie Mocks Mommy” takes a close look at the movie “Accepted” - a flick that places perjorative trends of the parental college culture, such as helicopter parenting and push for prestige acceptances onto center stage.</p>

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Many past college-focused flicks have sarcastically explored adolescent forays into college life — Animal House, Van Wilder and the American Pie series among them. But parental involvement in such pictures is usually kept to a minimum. The parents in Accepted provide plenty of chuckles, but they also happen to highlight the well-reported trend of overly enmeshed, yet sometimes painfully blind, “helicopter parents” — those busybody caregivers who just can’t stop hovering around to provide their special brand of caring and giving. …</p>

<p>Johnson believes that Accepted reflects a parental culture that she predicts will last long into the future. “I wonder, though, if parents will pick up on it,” she says. “I’ve seen a lot of denial among the overly enmeshed.

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<p><a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/18/accepted[/url]”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/18/accepted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[asteriskea]

<p>So far, the movie is getting great reviews on Amazon.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JP11/sr=8-2/qid=1155906968/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-4547361-0397768?ie=UTF8[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JP11/sr=8-2/qid=1155906968/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-4547361-0397768?ie=UTF8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[lderochi]

<p>And bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/accepted/[/url]”>http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/accepted/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;