Educating Rita is a 1983 film of Willy Russell's play of the same title directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell.
An English working-class girl wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, however, has long since openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about her ability to adapt to academia. Frank (Caine) is a jaded...
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Educating Rita is a 1983 film of Willy Russell's play of the same title directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell.
An English working-class girl wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, however, has long since openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about her ability to adapt to academia. Frank (Caine) is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as 'appalling but good enough for his appalling students'. His passion for the subject is reignited by Rita (Walters), an Open University student, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm is found by Frank to be refreshing. The film focuses on how Rita struggles to interact anymore with the largely uneducated and recondite peers from her own background, but similarly struggles to interact with the educated classes. Rita's...
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