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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767882934
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767882938
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 15783
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award®-winner Michael Caine (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Cider House Rules, 1999, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986) along with Julie Walters earned well-deserved 1983 Oscar® nominations (Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively) for their outstanding performances in this brilliant, bittersweet comedy. Walters is Rita, a working-class woman seeking the path to self-discovery. Bored with her life as a hairdresser, and under pressure from her husband to start a family, she enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university determined to better herself. Caine is Frank Bryant, the disillusioned English professor who is assigned to teach her. While Frank watches Rita embark on a radical transformation, his own life takes on a different kind of transformation as he finds himself falling in love with Rita while sinking into the depths of his alcoholism. Earning a third Oscar® nomination for its screenplay by William Russell (based on his play), Educating Rita is a very funny, very charming and thoroughly entertaining film.
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Michael Caine and the knockout Julie Walters deliver a pair of wonderful performances in this endearingly bittersweet tale of a boozily burnt-out professor's tutoring of (and subsequent tutoring by) a free-spirited cockney hairdresser determined to improve her lot in life. The basic plot won't exactly surprise anyone who's ever seen a movie before, but the ace cast (particularly Caine, who's rarely this subtle) continually finds new directions to spin off from the rather rote path. Although the end result is perhaps just a little too convinced of its own adorability to attain classic status, this remains a rarity in the genre--a feel-good film that earns its emotions honestly. A nice change of pace for director Lewis Gilbert, who is perhaps better known for his contributions to the James Bond series. --Andrew Wright
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Rita As Student And Teacher
Educating Rita is a funny and enjoyable movie that is difficult to classify. On the one hand, this is definitely light-hearted fare that tries not to take anything too seriously. Yet on the other hand, this is really good! I am not sure if one could call this a masterpiece per se. But if it isn't a masterpiece it's pretty darned close to one. This is the most fun movie I've seen in a long time.
The Cast
The cast members of this movie deserve special mention because they ... Read More
Rating: - An Excellent Movie
It's intelligent, insightful, and very funny. Brilliant performances by Julie Walters and Michael Caine in a story that you wish was true. I see very little that can be improved here, and it's one of those very rare films that I'll put back on my little shelf to watch again later.
Rating:  - Educating Rita
Educating Rita
"Educating Rita" is in my personal top five movies of all time. Although labeled a romantic comedy I think that this movie is in a class by itself and defies categorization. I have a definite academic bent and this Oscar nominated, Lewis Gilbert directed, 1983 film still strikes a deep chord though I've watched it over and over.
Frank(Michael Caine), a divorced and bored-with-life alcoholic professor, just "happens" to be assigned as a personal tutor for the lovely ... Read More
Rating: - Don't get above your raising
In Educating Rita, we find a woman, working as a hairdresser, who wants to better herself (played by Julie Walters). More than anything she wants to learn, not to put herself above family and friends, but from a desire to know, to see what else there is in the world that she can do and be.Unfortunately, everyone in her life finds the evolving Rita not to their liking, especially her husband.
Working and studying and coping with a husband who demands children are not easy for Rita. Things ... Read More
Rating: - BRILLIANT
This flick, with it's small ensemble caught me by surprise on re-run TV, a few years after its release, and I never forgot it. I was never a Micheal Caine fan, and was new to Walters. She won me over instantly, and this is now my favorite movie of all time, really because of her perormance, and of course the story. Basically, It's Pygmaleon, reborn. A working class "My Fair Lady" so to speak. Rita, a hairdresser without an education signs on for a course at a university, in an attempt to better her ... Read More
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