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Educating Rita
Title
Educating Rita [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; [presented by] Acorn Pictures ; produced and directed by Lewis Gilbert ; screenplay by Willy Russell.
ISBN
0767882938
9780767882934
Published
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures, [2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the stage play by Willy Russell.
DVD release of the 1983 motion picture.
Region 1, widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital, mastered in High Definition.
Director of photography, Frank Watts ; editor, Garth Craven ; music composed, performed, and arranged by David Hentschel.
Closed-captioned; English or French soundtracks; optional English or French subtitles.
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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
September 08, 2008
Credits
Director of photography, Frank Watts ; editor, Garth Craven ; music composed, performed, and arranged by David Hentschel.
Cast
Michael Caine, Julie Walters.
System details note
DVD.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Videorecording number
07898 Columbia Pictures
Subjects
Genre/Form
Romantic comedy films.
Comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
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