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Educating Rita is a 1983 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play. The film stars Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams and Maureen Lipman. It won multiple major awards for best actor and best actress and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Oct 28, 1983 · An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education. Director. Lewis Gilbert. Writer. Willy Russell. Stars. Michael Caine. Julie Walters. Michael Williams. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 13.3K users. 102 User reviews. 28 Critic reviews. 54 Metascore.
But I didn't believe it. And so "Educating Rita," which might have been a charming human comedy, disintegrated into a forced march through a formula relationship. The movie stars Michael Caine as a British professor of literature and Julie Walters as the simple Cockney girl who comes to him for night-school lessons. She has problems: She is a ...
Rita (Julie Walters), a married hair stylist in her 20s, wants to go back to school. She begins studying with Dr. Bryant (Michael Caine), a professor using alcohol to cope with his divorce ...
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education. In Liverpool, 27-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children, as desired by her husband Denny (Malcolm Douglas).
Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant.
An English working class girl wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor is a man who prefers the company of Jack Daniels to Jack London.
