Saturday, November 15: 5:30 pm

Mandell, Calhoun, the 92nd Street Y, Epiphany, City and Country. You'd think it was the Ivy League the way these parents act. Agonizing over minutiae in application questions, redialing the phone with furrowed brows, sending gifts and making donation pledges, finagling influential contacts. These are how five sets of New York City parents spend the early days of September trying to get their two-year-olds into preschool. It's a make-or-break situation for the parents, investment bankers and business professionals mostly, who believe these are the feeder schools for later admission into Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Whether it's true or not occurs to only a few them, including a school director and a couple from Greenwich Village with more than college on their minds for their toddler. Built on the suspense of who gets in and who doesn't, this film is an amusing ride through the microcosm of monied Manhattanites who approach the task of educating their barely verbal children with the tunnel vision of religious fanatics. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll be thankful your kids are grown.
(preceded by The Guarantee)

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