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Educating Rita [videorecording (DVD)].

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Columbia Pictures, c2006.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.

1.85:1 widescreen.

Includes English and French language tracks with optional English or French subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Producer and director, Lewis Gilbert ; screenplay, Willy Russell.

Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

"Academy Award®-winner Michael Caine (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Cider House Rules) along with Julie Walters earned well-deserved 1983 Oscar® nominations (Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively) for their outstanding performances in this brilliant, bittersweet comedy. Walters is Rita, a working-class woman seeking the path to self-discovery. Bored with her life as a hairdresser, and under pressure from her husband to start a family, she enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university determined to better herself. Caine is Frank Bryant, the disillusioned English professor who is assigned to teach her. While Frank watches Rita embark on a radical transformation, his own life takes on a different kind of transformation as he finds himself falling in love with Rita while sinking into the depths of his alcoholism. Earning a third Oscar® nomination for its screenplay by William Russell (based on his play), Educating Rita is a very funny, very charming and thoroughly entertaining film."--Container.

Romantic comedy films.

College life films.

Substance abuse films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Gilbert, Lewis, 1920-

Caine, Michael.

Walters, Julie, 1950-

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