Michael Caine,
Julie Walters,
Michael Williams,
Maureen Lipman,
Jeananne Crowley
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A trio of Oscar nominations and a pair of Golden Globes went to this acclaimed romantic comedy-drama based on the play by Willy Russell. Julie Walters stars as Rita, a witty, 26-year-old working class... read more
DVD Release Date: January 24, 2006
Stats: 469 reviews
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.
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.
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Julie Walters at her best and a great performance from Caine! Lewis Gilbert is often overlooked but has made some great British films!
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.
excellent film
funny interesting and its sort of a romatic comedy because you can sort of tell that the teacher is falling for the student adn the same way with the student
julie walters plays a lady that just wants to learn and she has a boyfriend that doesnt want her to do... read more
Excellent cast. Educating Rita is about a hairdresser who wants to prove herself at university.
The usual chalk and cheese comedy of manners that's the staple of british comedy. Better than most because of the appeal of the two star performances but still as contrived and predictable as you'd expect from this genre.
Michael Caine is perfect.
...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. Full Review
Lewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open Full Review
Comedy with romantic touches that manages to be appealing and moving.
Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who wants him to tutor her in literature. Full Review
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