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Educating Rita
Widescreen
Actor/Actress:
Michael Caine
,
Julie Walters
,
Maureen Lipman
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Year:
1983
Runtime:
110
Rating:
PG (MPAA)
Language:
Original: English; Dubbed: French; Subtitled: English, French
Color:
Y
Closed Captioned:
N
UPC:
043396078987
Item Number:
COL007898
Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her teacher in a fuzzy romance, she matures and discovers a new side of herself, but in the end she must choose either her marriage or the magnetic Dr. Bryant.
EDUCATING RITA reunites director Lewis Gilbert with star Michael Caine--they previously worked together in the 1966 drama ALFIE--and once again their collaboration is staggering. Bryant's shortcomings as a drunk and a womanizer are detestable, yet still Gilbert allows viewers to empathize with his character. In EDUCATING RITA, Gilbert once again demonstrates that he is not only a master of commanding the camera but a master at deconstructing the human heart as well.
In a determined effort to escape her working class background, a young hairdresser hires a tutor to instruct her in the classics. She ends up giving her disillusioned, oft- inebriated professor a lesson in making the most of life. The film is a charming PYGMALION-like comedy.
Director Lewis Gilbert teamed up with playwright Willy Russell again in 1989's SHIRLEY VALENTINE.
The film was originally rated R by the MPAA, but received a PG rating on appeal.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
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Stars
Michael Caine
:
British Actor, ALFIE (1966)
Julie Walters
:
British Actress
Maureen Lipman
:
British Actress
Michael Williams
:
English Actor
Director
Lewis Gilbert
:
Director/Producer/Screenwriter
Writer
Willy Russell:
American Writer, EDUCATING RITA
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Review 1:
"...An irresistible story....RITA is one of those memorable screen personas that seem to be lacking nowadays...Julie Walters injects her with just the right mix of comedy and pathos..."
Source: Variety 05/04/1983
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