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Educating Rita
1983
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her teacher in a fuzzy romance, .. Read more
| Starring | Julie Walters, Michael Caine, Malcolm Douglas, Maureen Lipman |
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| Director | Lewis Gilbert |
| Genres | Drama |
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Educating Rita
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her teacher in a fuzzy romance, she matures and discovers a new side of herself, but in the end she must choose either her marriage or the magnetic Dr. Bryant.
EDUCATING RITA reunites director Lewis Gilbert with star Michael Caine--they previously worked together in the 1966 drama ALFIE--and once again their collaboration is staggering. Bryant's shortcomings as a drunk and a womanizer are detestable, yet still Gilbert allows viewers to empathize with his character. In EDUCATING RITA, Gilbert once again demonstrates that he is not only a master of commanding the camera but a master at deconstructing the human heart as well.
| Starring | Julie Walters, Michael Caine, Malcolm Douglas, Maureen Lipman, Michael Williams, Godfrey Quigley |
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| Director | Lewis Gilbert |
| Studio | ITV STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | Discover Ireland, Full English |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 1983 To Rent: DVD: 20 Oct 2003 Blu-ray: not available |
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Rather dismal, thinly characterized and ill-lit variation on Pygmalion, with endless talk leading nowhere (it was originally a two-character play). Due to its Liverpudlian modishness it achieved surprising box-office success.
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I remember watching this film some years ago and quite liking it for all its quirky British ness. There was some dark spectre hanging over it in my memory ... read more »
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Comic or Sad - Unfortunately Neither, Just Stereotyped
Why do we English rate films where the plot is so at odds with the style. This hammy comic delivery clashes with a plot involving personal disenfranchisement &... read more »
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Has ups and downs
I really liked the two main characters and found them really entertaining which was good and I enjoyed the first half of the film very much. After that I felt ... read more »
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Oliviers give the nod to Hollywood
- 18 Jan 2006
Stars of the cinema are yet again high in the running for the Laurence Olivier Awards. The awards that honour the best of actors, plays and shows in London include nominations for Billy Elliot – The Musical, Ewan McGregor, and Brian Dennehy. The stage version of Billy Elliot with music from Elton John, based on the film starring Jamie Bell and Julie Walters, is up for best new musical against Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques – The Musical. Walters (Educating Rita, Calendar Girls) is... Read more
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Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her ...
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Educating Rita
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her ...
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