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Oct 28, 1983 · Educating Rita: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman. An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1983-10-28
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.
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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.
- (17)
- Lewis Gilbert
- PG
- Michael Caine
Educating Rita traces the relationship between Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita (Walters) and Dr Frank Bryant (Caine), an alcoholic university professor, both of whom have reached an impasse in their lives and need a new direction.
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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.
