EDUCATING RITA (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1983
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Academy Award winner Michael Caine (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Cider House Rules, 1999) 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. ;
• Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas, Godfrey Quigley, Dearbhla Molloy, Patrick Daly, Kim Fortune, Philip Hurd-Wood, Hilary Reynolds, Jack Walsh, Christopher Casson, Rosamund Burton, Marcus O'Higgins, Mark Drew, Gabrielle Reidy, Des Nealon, Marie Conmee, Oliver Maguire, Derry Power, Alan Stanford, Gerry Sullivan, Patricia Jeffares, Maeve Germaine, Liam Stack, Lewis Gilbert, Willy Russell
• Director: Lewis Gilbert
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie