Product Details

• Actors: Various
• Directors: Marc H. Simon, Matthew Makar
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: DOCURAMA
• DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001P8M9FU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Nursery University" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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NURSERY UNIVERSITY - DVD Movie

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars view it as an unintended comedy of errors, February 4, 2011

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Beatrice Izzey "Nanny Dog" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nursery University (DVD)

It's a documentary, but almost all of the characters are laughable shells of human beings. It's an anthropological study, a highly entertaining, hilarious one.

It's all surface agitation. Little introspection. No wisdom. Just yuppies doing what they see their peers doing. Monkey see monkey do. No critical ability. Ants and rats, going to and fro.

Lots of the people featured are first generation largely white newcomers to Manhattan/NYC, and seem unaware that they to an extent chose to enter a highly insular, regimented social milieu with its own arbitrary rules. They do not recognize that there are million other legitimate ways to live and educate children.

All the parents are reading the one book in print re nursery schools in NYC (by Victoria Goldman) and none of them seem to have thought that there are hundreds of perfectly good schools in other neighborhoods but are completely omitted from this book.

Rent it on Netflix; no need to buy. You won't want to watch it again. It's not artsy or timeless. It's more like social farce lite.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious on many levels, June 21, 2010

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Karen Sampson Hudson "Karen Sampson Hudson" (Reno, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nursery University (DVD)

This film is uproariously hilarious on many levels. Sources of laughter include the grammatical errors made by wealthy Manhattan parents and the directors of pricey ($20K per year) nursery schools, the unrelieved seriousness with which they take themselves, and their rock-solid certainty that NYC is the center of the universe.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars in spite of everything, money talks., November 14, 2010

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Larkin Breed (pleasant hill, ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nursery University (Amazon Instant Video)

the kids were great. the parents, with the exception of one or two,were much more sympathetic than i expected. it must have a lot to do with money. the girl who got into all the schools her parents applied to was clearly from the wealthiest family. she's on her way to harvard. worth watching.