Educating Rita
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- Synopsis
- A trio of Oscar nominations and a pair of Golden Globes went to this acclaimed romantic comedy-drama based on the play by Willy Russell. Julie Walters stars as Rita, a witty, 26-year-old working class British hairdresser who decides to seek an ......
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- Director(s)
- Lewis Gilbert
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 110 min.
Critic Reviews
Aided greatly by an expert film adaptation by its playwright, Willy Russell, Gilbert has come up with an irresistible story about a lively, lower-class British woman hungering for an education and the rather, staid, degenerating English professor who reluctantly provides her with one.Read the full review
Educating Rita, which might have been a charming human comedy, disintegrated into a forced march through a formula relationship.Read the full review
The essentially two-character play has been opened up to the point that it includes a variety of settings and subordinate figures, but it never approaches anything lifelike.Read the full review
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