educating rita

Director: lewis gilbert

Actor: michael caine,julie walters,michael williams,maureen lipman

Data Published: Thu Jun 16 1983

Genres: Comedy,Drama

Key Words: essay writing,university lecturer,alcoholism,troubled marriage,teacher student relationship

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085478/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educating_Rita_(film)

Description: Educating Rita is a movie starring Michael Caine, Julie Walters, and Michael Williams. An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.

Plot: A Liverpudlian working-class young woman – hairdresser – Rita (Julie Walters) wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), however, has long ago openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to student culture. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as "appalling but good enough for his appalling students". His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing.