Educating Rita (film)

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Educating Rita

Theatrical Release Poster
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Produced by Lewis Gilbert
Written by Willy Russell (also play)
Starring Michael Caine
Julie Walters
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) September 21, 1983 (USA)
Running time 110 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Educating Rita is a 1983 film of Willy Russell's play of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell. The original play is for two actors and is set entirely in Frank's office at the university; the filmed version includes a number of minor characters who are only talked about in the stage play and takes place in a number of locations.

An English working-class girl wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, however, has long since openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about her acculturation to academia. Starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, who reprises her role from the stage production. It was also Walters' feature film debut. (Rated PG in the United States.)

Although the setting of the film is Liverpool, the film was shot in Trinity College, Dublin. All other scenes were also filmed in Ireland: "France" is in fact Maynooth, Rita's "summer school" is, in part, University College Dublin and Dublin Airport also appears.

The film won the 1983 BAFTA Award for Best Film.

Preceded by
Gandhi		 BAFTA Award for Best Film
1983		 Succeeded by
The Killing Fields
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