Educating Rita
February 7, 2012Educating Rita
Call Number: DVD00816
by: Lewis Gilbert; Willy Russell; Michael Caine; Julie Walters; Acorn Pictures.; Columbia Pictures.
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures, [2006]
Notes: DVD release of the 1983 motion picture. Based on the stage play by Willy Russell. Nominated for three Oscars and four Golden Globes in 1984. Running time 111 mins.
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 #: 63202129
Also Available on VHS
Added: February 7, 2012
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
