Educating Rita
February 17, 2010Educating Rita
Call Number: VHS00956
by Lewis Gilbert; Michael Caine; Julie Walters; HGV Video Productions.; Columbia Pictures.; Acorn Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video ; Ajax, Ontario : HGV Video Productions, 1989, ©1983
Notes: Originally released in 1983 (111 mins.); Nominated for three Oscars and four Golden Globes in 1984.
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.
OCLC #: 319845828
Also Available on DVD
Added: February 17, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
