Michael Caine

Julie Walters

Michael Williams

Maureen Lipman

Jeananne Crowley

Malcolm Douglas

Godfrey Quigley

Dearbhla Molloy

Kim Fortune

Pat Daly

Philip Hurd-Wood

Christopher Casson

Hilary Reynolds

Jack Walsh

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

David Hentschel

Frank Watts

Garth Craven

Drama

Comedy

Educating Rita

Acorn Pictures

Columbia Pictures

United Kingdom

English

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As with "Blood Brothers", Willy Russell has created another wonderfully evocative scenario for a bored, alcoholic "Professor Bryant" (Michael Caine) who finds himself tutoring aspiring working-class "Rita" (Julie Walters). She is the product of a state education system that has given her the rudiments but she needs more; she wants to be able to make her own choices - and they don't necessarily include settling down with her husband and having babies. Initially she is as daunted as she is inspired by the more intellectual environment he, and his students, inhabit but gradually their personalities entwine as it becomes clear that "Bryant" has plenty of demons in his own life - exemplified well by girlfriend "Julia" and her clumsily disguised affair with fellow lecturer Michael Williams' "Brian", as well as by his dependency on Scotch! On the face of it, the plot is really quite predictable, but that simplicity belies the real issues that many women faced when attempting to break free from their class-bound cycle of responsibilities of home and hearth, even in as late as the 1980s. The humour is frequent, dry and pithy with a fun, and quite telling contribution from Maureen Lipman as "Trish", the new flatmate who simply adores Mahler. The score could have been orchestrated a bit better - the synthesised sound is a bit amateur; and at times - like the original play - it drags a little, but that all serves to give us a little more of idea as to what makes both of them really tick - she is prepared to sacrifice much for her opportunity. Caine & Walters are superb, plausible and likeable in equal measure delivering a poignant story of salvation for both of them. It lost out to "Terms of Endearment" & "Tender Mercies" at the Oscars - which is a shame; it is much more memorable than either of those...

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