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If only I'd been able to believe they were actually reading the books, then everything else would have fallen into place. But I didn't believe it. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
If only I'd been able to believe they were actually reading the books, then everything else would have fallen into place. But I didn't believe it.
Roger Ebert
Time has not been kind to "Educating Rita." Apr 17, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Time has not been kind to "Educating Rita."
David N. Butterworth
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 Nov 6, 2007 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
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
Emanuel Levy
Michael Caine is perfect. Aug 24, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
Michael Caine is perfect.
Cole Smithey
...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. Jan 21, 2006 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
...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.
John J. Puccio
Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open Dec 3, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open
Don Willmott
Comedy with romantic touches that manages to be appealing and moving. Nov 24, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Comedy with romantic touches that manages to be appealing and moving.
Ken Hanke
Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who wants him to tutor her in literature. Aug 31, 2002 | Full Review…
Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who wants him to tutor her in literature.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
If you are either in college currently or are thinking about going soon, you should see this movie. It's a very thought provoking, realistic, unique movie about education and life. I highly recommend it.
Super Reviewer
An insightful storyline of education, a merging of classes, pretentious dreams and a meeting of minds. Educating Rita is a (reasonably) modern day ?My Fair Lady? with character and ambition. Both main roles interesting and played well by Michael Caine and Julie Walters. One of the British 80?s greats.
Julie and Caine work very well together in this, she makes Rita's journey a terrific ride.
Brilliant and bitersweet British comedy-drama between a boozily burn-out professor, who has given up on life, and his newest student - a free-spirited hairdresser, who is determined to change hers.
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