Actress Joan Cusack talks about her role in the film 'Acceptance', and says parents often pressure their children when the time comes to apply to college.
LIFETIME - When you're a kid, applying for college is stressful enough, without having your parents on your back.
The new film "Acceptance," to air on the Lifetime channel, is a humourous look at the pressure parents place on their kids during the college admission process.
Academy Award nominee Joan Cusack plays the role of Nina Rockefeller, who's obsessed with getting her daughter, Taylor (played by Mae Whitman), into a top school for the sole purpose of meeting a suitable husband. But when Taylor decides that the lowly-ranked Yates College is the right choice for her, she and her mother face off over what's really best for her future happiness.
"It's about the pressure that parents put on their children and children put on themselves, the sort of the barrel that the Ivy league colleges have over everyone that if you don't get into the perfect school then you're not an acceptable person."
Herself a mother of two boys, the actress says parents often place too much pressure on their kids and says many of them needed to relax.
"I think as a parent you always want the best for your kids and you know it would be easier if they get into Harvard and it would be easy if they were captain of the football team and they were the smartest kid and the most beautiful and blah blah blah but the fact is most kids are individual," Cusack says.
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