Pros: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Story Cons: Blaring score and pedestrian production values
Educating Rita (1983) Like two ships passing in the night, Educating Rita shows the trajectories of two different individuals following their separate paths, one a jaded professor (Michael Caine); the other a naive blue collar hairdresser ...
Pros: Penetrating ideas about what higher education can and cannot provide; two strong lead performances Cons: Dramatically competent but not great; overblown soundtrack; cop-out ending
Thematically, I admire Lewis Gilbert's 1983 film, Educating Rita, very much. Dramatically, it's less successful, though still pretty good. This film is about as penetrating a study of what higher education does and does not accomplish as any ...
Pros: Caine, Walters, lots of good humor and affection between the two protaganists. Cons: cheesy score music, Rita's working-class background perhaps a bit too exaggerated.
I remember university education well. Going to class, reading lots of strange and interesting texts, writing lots of papers and exams. I can say that doing that sort of thing was a lot more fulfilling to me than any of the crappy jobs that I had, ...
Pros: Well acted performances from all the cast, an overrall good film Cons: None really,
It had been a good while since I had seen ‘Educating Rita’ yet i found myself crossing paths with Willy Russell’s film again this year as part of my studies at University (looking at class and gender if anyone is interested).
The process of learning, awakening from the cocoon of naivete and ignorance into which we are all born, is a journey and experience bordering on the divine.To thirst for knowledge is a gift,a curiosity and freshness to life which at some point we all ...
Pros: Brilliant writing, sharp performances Cons: The accents may be tough for some ears...
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Rent the glorious "Educating Rita", starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters -- it's cheaper than taking years worth of English courses at your local university. Not to mention a whole lot more...
I like Michael Caine as an actor but I did not like this film. My reaction had nothing to do with Caine's acting, which I thought was definitely on the ball. I was intensely annoyed by Julie Walters' portrayal of Rita. Half the time, I could barely...
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