Educating Rita

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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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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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