Educating Rita
- 1983 film
Moving comedy drama about a hairdresser who dreams of rising above her drab urban existence. Stars Julie Walters and Michael Caine. Also features Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas, Godfrey Quigley and more.
Educating Rita
Working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols for an adult education course in literature at her local university, determined to expand her mind. She is assigned alcoholic lecturer Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), and as Rita's horizons broaden she begins to feel stifled by her home life. Simultaneously, Frank's academic career takes a turn for the worse as his drinking increases.
Caine and Walters both received Oscar nominations, as did Willy Russell's screenplay.
First released: Monday 20th October 2003
- Released: Monday 21st May 2018
- Distributor: ITV Studios
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 105
- Catalogue: 3711537933
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- Distributor: Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 108
- Subtitles: English
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- Released: Monday 21st May 2018
- Distributor: ITV Studios
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 105
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- Distributor: ITV Studios
- Minutes: 105
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