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Educating Rita

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Educating Rita (1983)

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Reviews Counted:13

Fresh:11

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7.2/10

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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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

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Michael Caine is perfect.

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...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.

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John J. Puccio
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Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open

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Comedy with romantic touches that manages to be appealing and moving.

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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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