Educating Rita

1983

Action / Comedy / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 15701 15.7K

hairdresser literature professor based on play or musical university alcoholic

Plot summary

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.

Director

Lewis Gilbert Photo
Lewis Gilbert

Top cast

Michael Caine Photo
Michael Caine as Dr. Frank Bryant
Godfrey Quigley Photo
Godfrey Quigley as Rita's Father
Hilary Reynolds Photo
Hilary Reynolds as Lesley
Julie Walters Photo
Julie Walters as Rita
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
882.55 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 6
1.68 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fntstcplnt 6 / 10

Educating Rita (1983)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Malcolm Douglass, Jeananne Crowley, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Dearbhla Molloy, Godfrey Quigley. (PG)Young working class woman from Liverpool (Walters) decides to get an education in English Literature from cynical, unenthusiastic professor Caine, who doesn't think much of her potential at first, but is eventually won over by her earnestness and rough charm. Mostly enjoyable spin on the "Pygmalion" concept was adapted by Willy Russell from his two-character stage play, but the efforts to expand it into a more fully-fleshed film don't work--the most intriguing scenes are the ones between Caine and Walters, while the added material involving their personal lives away from the university offer little besides clichés and repetition. For a movie so devoted to learning through classic literature and poetry, it is remarkably disinterested in exploring what about those written works are so rewarding (name dropping, on the other hand...). Walters scores in her film debut (she originated the role on stage), while Caine is terrific; but then, when he's not slumming it with mechanical sharks, Steven Seagal, and the like, when is he ever not?62/100
Reviewed by jamiecostelo58 8 / 10

Heart-warming and funny drama

Michael Caine and TV favourite Julie Walters shine wonderfully in this film, which tells the story of 26-year-old Rita (Walters) wanting to discover herself by attending the Open University, where alcohol dependant Dr. Frank Bryant (Caine) is a teacher.The movie follows these two main characters change and reevaluate their lives for the better through each other. Caine and Walters' chemistry is simply divine, and Maureen Lipman also makes an appearance as over the top and eccentric Trish, who on the outside, is this confident, bubbly woman, but on the inside is hurting badly because of her fears of being alone.Both Caine and Walters won Best Actor and Best Actress awards for their performances (at the BAFTAs), and the movie itself won Best Film in 1984, and one look at Educating Rita tells you why. It's a film that's simply full of warmth and charm.A strong British film and the perfect debut for the now legendary Julie Walters.
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