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Educating Rita (1983)

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User Rating: 7.1/10 (3,926 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Writers:
Willy Russell (play)
Willy Russell (screenplay)
Release Date:
21 September 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy more
Tagline:
A comedy about a teacher and a very memorable student [Video Australia] more
Plot:
A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches... more | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Another song to sing! more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Company:
Acorn Pictures more

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Trivia:
When Frank is drunk in the lecture hall, he says, "Not many people know that." This not only became a familiar catchphrase for Michael Caine but also the title of a best-selling collection of trivia anecdotes, which Caine compiled in book form for the National Playing Fields Association charity in 1984. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Rita first enters her shared flat, a record is playing on the turntable. The needle is extremely close to the end of the record, yet the song continues playing in the background for at least another two minutes with no sign of stopping. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[Frank walks on campus and addresses some students]
Dr. Frank Bryant: Good afternoon.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Best! Movies! Ever!: Hot for Teacher (#1.21)" (2007) more

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Another song to sing!, 29 August 2006
9/10
Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

I remember when I first saw this film many years ago on television. I always feel like I'm returning home to those memories after twenty years. I love Julie Walters as Rita/Susan in the film, a hairdresser who aspires to become an intellectual. At first, she is not your typical college student. She is older, married, and not ready to have children with her husband. She seeks better. I remember how she nearly gave up when he invites her to dinner because she thought that she brought an inappropriate bottle of wine or champagne to her teacher's house. Anyway, her performance sparkles with sheer delight and Rita/Susan becomes an endearing character who has not forgotten her roots or her future. Anyway, she leaves the party without even going in afraid of being laughed at by the snobbery bunch of college intellectuals. Anyway, she goes to the bar where her family is and they're singing this ridiculous song "I'm so happy that you're so happy" and she witnesses her own mother crying and saying that they're must be a better song to sing and she decides to come back to class not that she is not met with pleasure by her own husband. He seems content with a home, wife, and child rather than his wife going out and becoming smarter and alive. Julie does a fantastic job at bringing her to life that you just can't imagine another person in this role. Anyway, Sir Michael Caine plays the drunken lost college professor who learns from his student, Rita/Susan as well. Michael Williams also has a role but you might know him better as being the husband to Dame Judi Dench. Anyway, the relationship between student and teacher despite a small age difference could have gone further and I wished it had but the movie does have a satisfying ending which is why I am giving it a 9 and not a ten. Anyway, the chemistry is there. Watching pros like Walters and Caine engage in conversation is worth watching again and again. Rita/Susan becomes who she wanted to be and that is an independent woman.

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