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Educating Rita (film)
1983
- PG1983 · Comedy drama · 1h 50m
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.
- $14.6 million (US)
- Lewis Gilbert
- £4 million
- David Hentschel
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
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.
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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.
- (418)
- Lewis Gilbert
- PG
- Michael Caine
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).
Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University tutor. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Educating Rita premièred at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980 starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston. The play was directed by Mike Ockrent.
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.
