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09/17/08
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 teacher, no lecture hall can contain their... [More]
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Maureen Lipman, Michael Williams
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
11/06/07
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01/26/06
Top Critic ...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.
01/21/06
Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open
12/03/05
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Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who wants him to tutor her in literature.
08/31/02
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