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Working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols for an adult education course in literature at her local university, determined to expand her mind. She is assigned alcoholic lecturer Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), and as Rita's horizons broaden she begins to feel stifled by her home life. Simultaneously, Frank's academic career takes a turn for the worse as his drinking increases. Caine and Walters both received Oscar nominations, as did Willy Russell's screenplay.

 

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Director Lewis Gilbert
Starring Julie Walters, Michael Caine

 

Genre Contemporary Film

 

Country UK Language English   Year 1984

 

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Certificate 15   Length 106 mins   Label CRLTN
Cat No 3711505703   Format DVD   Colour
Region2   Aspect 4:3 Full Frame

 

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A quite modest yet moving film detailing the friendship between a struggling young woman who wants a better life through education and the bedraggled professor who wants to escape his "educated" life through drink. The dialogue between this great ensemble is priceless, a magnificent balance of wisdom and humor. And if you see only one Michael Caine film in your life, let it be this one. He's an absolute master here.

 

 

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