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Educating Rita (1983)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 12
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Maureen Lipman, Michael Williams
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Maureen Lipman, Michael Williams
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Reviews for Educating Rita
Inspired by Pygmalion and other works about mentor-pupil troubled/rewarding interaction, Lewis Gilbert's film is too theatrical, betraying its origins, but it's elevated by sparkling performances from Michael Caine and paricularly newcomer Julie Walters
...a thoughtful thematic treatise on cultivation and learning and a charming character study of two lost souls from different worlds finding a common need in one another.
Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open
Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who wants him to tutor her in literature.
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