Nursery University (2008)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Directors:

Marc H. Simon
Matthew Makar (co-director)

Writer:

Marc H. Simon (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Getting In Is No Longer Child's Play

Plot:

Set in New York City, the epicenter of a phenomenon cropping up in communities across the United States...

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Creepy Dressed Up As Cute

Fascinating look at a very alien world, parents in NYC frantic trying to get their kids in the "right" nursery school. The film is light in tone, and a few of the parents actually seem like sane individuals with good intentions. A few of the parents really need therapy which they can apparently afford if they are willing to fork over that kind of money.

Although a few of the educators in the process stress that the process is over wrought, they clearly buy into it. I wonder if the kids all of whom are uniformly cute and charming will turn into unbearable brats washed in a steady bath of entitlement after a few years of going through the application process for kindergarten, then grade school and so on.

Good primer for the upper class folks who have yet to subject their child to this sort of insanity and eagerly await the opportunity. Also a good primer for those of us who have less than gigantic incomes, less than perfect though perfectly decent nice and smart kids, we can say hey we aren't as messed up as we thought.