Educating Rita [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; [presented by] Acorn Pictures ; produced and directed by Lewis Gilbert ; screenplay by Willy Russell.
Michael Caine, Julie Walters. Based on the stage play by Willy Russell. DVD release of the 1983 motion picture. Region 1, widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital, mastered in High Definition.
Summary:
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed into a free spirit, Frank is forced to confront his own life.
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